According to the scientist, it was Cardinal Mazarin's valet
Historian Paul Sonnino of the University of California said that he was able to find out who was the mysterious prisoner of the Bastille and other French prisons, who went down in history under the name "Iron Mask". For three and a half centuries, the personality of this man was surrounded by many legends.
To date, researchers agree that prisoner number 64389000 was indeed taken into custody in 1669, over the next thirty-odd years, he visited many prisons in France and really wore a mask at that time, but in fact it was velvet. it was made iron by later legends. However, there are various versions about who was hiding under the mask, according to some of which it was the brother or even twin of Louis XIV. Other "applicants" are sometimes called the adventurer Ercol Mattioli, General General Vivienne de Boulond and the Lorraine nobleman Armoise. Some also believe that different people could be hiding under the mask at different times. Paul Sonnino offers his own version, which is different from all of the above.
The historian states that the famous prisoner was named Estache Dauger and that he was the valet of Cardinal Mazarin, who was for some time the first minister of France. According to Paul Sonnino's assumption, Eustache Dauger could "at the wrong time" 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 prison and force him to wear a mask and, threatening with murder if he will reveal his name. Sonnino claims that his assumption is supported by a large number of documents, Discovery reports.
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