CHAPTER XXII.

The Isles Sainte-Marguerite--Their Appearance--Their Past--Various Causes of their Celebrity--How I was led to suppose that Matthioly was not taken to Exiles by Saint-Mars--Documents which prove him to have been left at Pignerol--Obscurity of the two Prisoners transferred to Exiles by Saint-Mars--Neither of them could have been the Man with the Iron Mask--Removal of the Prisoners of Pignerol to the Isles Sainte-Marguerite 313