"Pagnol explains that those in power ""directed the suppositions towards some foreign lord"", and he also refers to the Duke of Monmouth or Cromwell's son.An anonymous novel

"This is a tale, Mémoires secrets pour servir à l’histoire de la Perse" (Confidential Memoirs Serving as a History of Persia) published in Amsterdam in 1745, using names from "One Thousand and One Nights"