"He refers to the curiosity of his cousin Blainvilliers (Saint-Mars's first cousin) who disguises himself as a sentry in order to observe the prisoner under his bedroom window, a stopover by the prisoner in Palteau during transfer from Sainte-Marguerite to the Bastille, and farmers’ accounts of having seen the prisoner sitting at the same table as Saint-Mars in his dining room.Blainvilliers, who is thought to have seen him without his mask, describes his physical appearance as ""tall and well-built"," with grey hair and ""nice clothes"," and reports a real royal ceremonial during the visits, which Pagnol compares to that established by Henri IV at court.