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On November 19, 1703, a man who had spent 40 years of his life in several prisons throughout France was buried in Bastille’s Saint Paul Cemetery.
Scripts by Voltaire and, mainly, Alexander Dumas, made this man one of the most famous prisoners of all ages, even if his name was never revealed. He is known as the man behind the Iron Mask.
The Sources
As it appears, the story of the imprisoned man was known among the nobles from the time the man was still alive. The first written report is found in Voltaire’s “Le siecle de Louis XIV”. Voltaire was imprisoned in Bastille for about a year, back in 1717. Being there, he met people who had come in contact with the mysterious prisoner and others, who only heard various narrations about his story.
Different interesting reports can be found in books from that period, such as «Le mémoire secret pour servir a l’ histoire de la Percy» by an unknown writer, writings by Frederic-Melchior Grimm referring to the time of the French Revolution and Etienne de Junca’s diary. The last, was a deputy commander of Bastille at the time of the prisoner’s death.
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