According to the scientist, it was Cardinal Mazarin valet
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The historian Paul Sonnino University California said that he was able to find out who was the mysterious prisoner of the Bastille and the other French prisons, went down in history under the name “The Iron mask”. For three and a half centuries, the identity of this person is surrounded by many legends.
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A still from the movie “The Man in the Iron Mask” (1977)
Today, researchers agree that the prisoner under number 64389000 was indeed taken into custody in 1669, over the next thirty-odd years have been to many French prisons and really wore at the time mask, but in fact it was velvet, iron is its “done” later legends. However, about who was hiding under the mask, portrayed raznlichnye version, according to some of them it was a twin brother or even Louis XIV. Among the other “candidates” is sometimes called an adventurer Ercole Mattioli, General General Vivien de Bulond and Lorraine Armuaz nobleman. Some also believe that at different times different people can hide behind a mask. Paul Sonnino offers its own version, which differs from all of the above.
The historian says that the famous prisoner’s name was Eustache Dauger and that he was the valet of Cardinal Mazarin, for some time held the post of first minister of France. By the Paul Sonnino, Eustache Dauger could “no time” to suggest that part of Mazarin appropriated part of the wealth from the king and queen of England, after which it was decided to send the valet to jail and get him to wear a mask and threatened with murder if he reveal his name. Sonnino claims that his assumption is confirmed by the large number of documents, reports Discovery.
The legends about the man in the iron mask became popular thanks to the novel by Alexandre Dumas “The Vicomte de Bragelonne or Ten Years After”, a play by Victor Hugo “Twins” as well as a number of feature films.
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