The real "Man in the Iron Mask" arrived at the Bastille on September 16, 1698, wearing a mask made not of iron but of black velvet. When he died unexpectedly on November 19, 1703, everything he owned was burned. The walls of his rooms were whitewashed and even the floor tiles were replaced, just in case he had found a way to leave writing somewhere. He was buried the following day in the graveyard of the nearby church of St. Paul-St. Louis under the pseudonym M. de Marchioly.