| Candidate | a | b | c | d | e | f | g | fails | first failure | decisive documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The valet delivered by Vauroy in August 1669 ('Eustache Dauger' / 'Danger' / 'd'Angers') | pass | pass | pass | pass | open | pass | open | 0 | - | Louvois 19 July 1669; Louvois 8 April 1680; Saint-Mars 25 June 1681; Barbezieux 13 August 1691 and 17 November 1697; du Junca 1698 and 1703. |
| La Rivière, Fouquet's valet | FAIL | n/a | pass | pass | open | open | open | 1 | a | Louvois 8 April 1680; Louvois 16 April 1684; Barbezieux 13 August 1691. |
| Count Ercole Antonio Mattioli | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | open | 6 | a | Saint-Mars 25 June 1681; Barbezieux 10 May 1694; Saint-Paul register 20 November 1703. |
| The Jacobin (Dominican monk arrested in 1674) | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | open | 6 | a | Louvois 8 April 1680; Barbezieux January 1694. |
| Eustache Dauger de Cavoye | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | 7 | a | Saint-Lazare letters of 20 June 1678 and c. 1679/80 (Mongrédien 1953); Louis XIV 17 August 1678. |
| Lieutenant-général Vivien Labbé de Bulonde | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | 7 | a | Dangeau 11 December 1691; receipts of 1699 and 1705; Batiffol, Bibliothèque de l'École des chartes 55 (1894), pp. 359-360. |
| Nicolas Fouquet | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | 7 | a | Lair 1890, t. II, pp. 472-474. |
| James Scott, Duke of Monmouth | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | 7 | a | Barrillon's dispatches, June-July 1685. |
| Louis de Bourbon, comte de Vermandois | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | 7 | a | d'Humières and Boufflers, November 1683. |
| François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | 7 | a | Brodart's report 27 June 1669; Louvois 19 July 1669 ('un valet'). |
| A twin or elder brother of Louis XIV | FAIL | FAIL | open | open | open | open | FAIL | 3 | a | Louvois 19 July 1669 ('un valet'); the 1675 service to Fouquet; birth records of 1638. |
| James de la Cloche | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | 7 | a | Kent's dispatches and the Naples will, 1669. |
| The abbé Prignani (Pregnani) | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | 7 | a | Laloy 1913, p. 101. |
| Molière | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | 7 | a | La Grange's register 1669 and 17 February 1673. |
| Avedick, Armenian patriarch of Constantinople | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | 7 | a | Topin 1883, pp. 168-170. |
| Henri II de Guise | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | 7 | a | Death in 1664. |
| The 'unknown of Provence' of 1669 (Kéroualze) | FAIL | open | open | open | open | open | FAIL | 2 | a | Louvois 26 March 1670 ('le prisonnier qui vous a été amené par le major de Dunkerque'); Laffilard's register. |
| Louis de Oldendorf, 'chevalier de Kiffenbach' (arrested March 1673) | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | open | 6 | a | Louvois 8 April 1680; Laloy 1913, pp. 122-127. |
| Charles de Batz de Castelmore, comte d'Artagnan | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | 7 | a | His career 1661-1673. |
| Martin, valet of Roux de Marsilly | FAIL | open | open | open | open | open | open | 1 | a | Croissy 1 July 1669; Lionne 13 July 1669 (Laloy 1913). |

Candidates with no documented failure: The valet delivered by Vauroy in August 1669 ('Eustache Dauger' / 'Danger' / 'd'Angers')
Fixed points:
  (a) Arrested near Dunkirk or Calais in late July 1669; delivered to Saint-Mars at Pignerol by Captain de Vauroy on 20 to 24 August 1669; described by Louvois as 'only a valet'
  (b) Allowed in 1675 to serve Nicolas Fouquet as a valet
  (c) Shut up with Fouquet's valet La Rivière after Fouquet's death (23 March 1680) as 'the two prisoners of the lower tower'
  (d) Taken by Saint-Mars to Exilles in October 1681 as one of the two 'merles' of the lower tower, while Mattioli stayed at Pignerol
  (e) The survivor of the two Exilles prisoners after one died in January 1687; carried to the île Sainte-Marguerite in a covered chair, arriving 30 April 1687
  (f) Brought by Saint-Mars to the Bastille on 18 September 1698 as 'an old prisoner he had at Pignerol', always masked
  (g) Died at the Bastille on 19 November 1703; buried at Saint-Paul on 20 November as 'Marchioly', 'aged forty-five years or thereabouts'