Here it is the true
history of the “The Man of Iron Mask”; The Bastilha, was constructed in 1370 and became an arrest during
the reign of Carlos VI; during the Regency of Richelieu Cardinal, in century XVII, an arrest for noblemen became or scholars, opponents to the official religion, adversaries politicians, agitators politicians, etc. In day 14 of July of 1789 the
people of Paris left to the streets and invaded the Bastilha, that symbolized the Real Absolutism, freeing its 7 prisoners. This fact was known as " The Fall of the Bastilha" , it dates commemorated for the Frenchmen. By 1679 return, during the reign of Luis XIV, a prisoner was placed under the personal responsibility of Mr. De Saint-Mars, at the time, was commander of the Fort and arrest of Pignerol, in the Savóia. The prisoner, without any official register of the arrest, beyond the name, had its unknown age, being simply, for its friends and the jailers of the arrest, as being "The Man of Iron Mask ". He was without a doubt some, it are of the common one, exactly for the places, where odd figures were " Stored" , the peculariety of this prisoner, the requint of badness, in one tortures, parently not painful, but infinitely it bothers; therefore the face of the prisoner was total hidden under a species of mask made velvety black, on mechanically to one " collar" of iron, whose mechanism, disabled its removal without aid of somebody. Although the face recognition of the prisoner was null, its agile movements and refined and elegant ways, lead to a reasoning, exactly subjective, of being still young e of the nobility. For questions you specify, "The Man of Iron Mask" , for the most part of the time, he was kept well far from the sights of the excessively imprisoned ones, also, being the section of prison, in which it was its cell, very kept well, and, to complete the security, a restricted contact with the imprisionament, being only one person chosen for such service. Although the extreme zeal in the security of " It Iron Mask" , he was treat for all with gentility and respect, mainly for the Sr.De Saint-Mars, commander of the penitentiary.
As previous procedures, also in the Bastilha, no register of the unhappy prisoner was fact, remaining of this form, per more five long years; in November of 1703, suddenly and of a total mysterious form, the Mask of Iron is sick in one day and dies in the other, having been embedded in the cemetary of Saint-Paul, and there yes, for the first time, its presumption name was disclosed, consisting of the registers, as being “Of Marchiel”, with 45 years of age.
During more than the twenty years that were imprisoned, by more secrecy that if has taken, the rumors were spread, for all France, in the reign of Luis XIV. Several had been the versions that had appeared referring the legend of the man of the Iron Mask; He was the brother of the King, having been exclused, for Richelieu Cardinal, to be able to preserve the integrity of the government of France; the reason of the rank of a mask, was to protect its true identity, preventing that the citizens perceived the great similarity with the King.
The mystery around " Mask of Iron always intrigued the historians. That consists that the proper Voltaire believed the version, of the captive was the oldest son of Ana of Austria. The version parently more trustworthy, and believed at the time, affirmed that the prisoner was Conde Mattoli, agent of the Duke of Mântua and that had been in charge them negotiations for delivery of the city of Casale to France, having fallen in the unpleasantness it king for the way as leads " affaire". As if it affirmed; the king orders to private arrest, delivering it the permanent guard to it of Saint Mars, that was, then, the commander of Pignerol.
In the destruction of the Bastilha, in 1789, with the burning of most of the archives, he became difficult new inquiries extremely. In 1872, Mr. Jung, officer of cabinet that had access to all the documents until then existing in France, Make an extensive study of the case, that gives edge to as many controversies. In him report he concluded:” The prisoner, known for the nickname of " Iron Mask" ,was a nobleman of Lorena, the gentleman “Of Hermoises”, defendant of still insuflar a revolt, conspiring against the life of Luis XIV.” Jung relates Of Hermoises with the well-known Madame of Brinvilliers, whose poisonous potions had finished with the life of many people and that, under torture, confessed the tram that urdiam against the king of França.A spite of the efforts of Mr. Jung, his conclusions had not been accepted for the great majority; being thus, the mystery of " Iron Mask" , through the centuries, it practically remains insoluble, standing enters the Great
History Enigmas.