 The treaty is therefore not ratified.Louis XIV, feeling deceived and ridiculed, had him kidnapped and imprisoned in Pignerol in May 1679, then on the Islands of Sainte-Marguerite, where he died in 1694, most probably of exhaustion caused by the walk from Pignerol to the Islands, about a hundred kilometres.The "Matthiolist" theories

Pagnol quotes certain theories identifying the masked prisoner as Count Matthioli, such as those of Marius Topin, or the historian Funck Brentano, particularly due to the name "Marchialy" written on the death certificate, which could be a distortion of "Matthioli".