In TV dramas, we can often see such a plot: some people who hold royal secrets but have a noble status, the emperor wants him to disappear, and he is reluctant to kill him, often imprisoning him in a lonely and uninhabited place or a special cell in the prison. For example, in the TV series "King of Legends", the "old master" that the protagonist encounters in the black prison is Weng Tonggong, the teacher of the Guangxu Emperor. It is said that art comes from life, and in the prisons of history, there are really such mysterious people.
The French Bastille Prison is very famous, built in the 14th century, originally used as a military castle, so it was initially called the "Bastille Fortress".
Later, the paris metropolitan area expanded, the Bastille became the building in the eastern part of the city, lost its role as a defense against foreign enemies, and the French royal family transformed it into a royal prison, which was specially used to hold political prisoners. It was once controlled by the French monarch, and anyone who dared to rebel against the imperial system would be imprisoned in the Bastille and tortured.
It was not until the 18th century that france rebelled against the "monarchy" throughout the country, and the Bastille, as a symbol of the French absolutist dynasty, was jointly conquered by the angry French people. As they prepared to destroy the Bastille prison, at the entrance to the prison, a line of writing was found that read: Prisoner number 64389000, Man in the Iron Mask. So who is this mysterious "Man in the Iron Mask"?
This question has always been a concern, but no one has ever been able to give an answer. The French thinker Voltaire, in his famous book "The Age of Louis XIV", once borrowed the image of the "Man in the Iron Mask" to portray a virtual "Man in the Iron Mask", writing: "In 1661, a castle on the island of Saint-Marguerite welcomed a special guest, that is, a young man with a long body and elegant manners. The reason why he is a special guest is because his head is covered with a special tin mask..."
Voltaire described the treatment of the Iron Mask in the Bastille: servants at their disposal, exquisite food and comfortable clothing. The French Minister of Defence personally visited the Man in the Iron Mask in prison, and when the Man in the Iron Mask was imprisoned, the warden of the Bastille personally greeted him and had lunch with him.
All kinds of descriptions let us see that the identity of this man in the iron mask is very mysterious, but they can't know who is hidden behind the iron mask? But it seems impossible to uncover this secret, because this tin helmet is locked, and there is only one key, which is kept in the hands of King Louis XIV.
In 1929, the British film company adapted the novel "Duke of Blajelo" by the famous French writer Alexandre Dumas, and for the first time put the story of the "Man in the Iron Mask" on the screen, which caused a very big sensation at the time. So that later American film and television companies have also borrowed the image of "Iron Mask Man" many times. It's just that these virtual images of the Man in the Iron Mask only earn enough gimmicks and don't answer people's doubts about him. What exactly is the origin of the "Man in the Iron Mask"?
For hundreds of years, the identity of the Man in the Iron Mask has been explored. Some believe that he was the biological father of King Louis XIV of France, before