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Bénigne d'Auvergne de Saint-Mars was a French prison governor in the late 17th and early 18th century. He is best known as the apparent keeper of the Man in the Iron Mask . [1] According to letters written by Saint-Mars to various officials and ministers of France, he had in his custody a prisoner of State, whom he carried with him from ...
Bénigne Dauvergne de Saint-Mars, né en 1626, probablement aux Mesnuls ( Yvelines) où résidaient ses parents, et mort à Paris le 18 septembre 1708, est un militaire français, gouverneur de la Bastille à partir de 1698 .
- The Man Behind The Mask
- The Prisoner’S Days in The Bastille
- Theories About The Man in The Iron Mask
- The Eternal Mystery
While we may never know the true identity of the Man in the Iron Mask, we can make a few guesses based on what we do know. Before taking up residence at the dreaded Bastille, he was held in a small prisonoff the coast of Cannes called Sainte-Marguerite. It was first constructed in 1617, but it didn’t become a state prison until 1685. One of the mos...
The storming of the Bastille — the prison that housed political dissidents of the powerful — is celebrated today on Bastille Day on July 14 in France. But before the Bastille became a symbol of the country’s freedom from hierarchical oppression, it was a hulking symbol of royal power. The Man in the Iron Mask spent his final years here in this Pari...
So, who was the Man in the Iron Mask? The guesses have numbered in the hundreds over the centuries, from the plausible to the far-fetched. Historians point to two men as the most often suspected identities behind the iron mask: Ercole Matthiole and Eustache Dauger. The former was an Italian count who had betrayed Louis XIV politically in the 1670s....
Although the iron (or velvet) mask was meant to condemn the prisoner with lifelong anonymity in his jail cell, it also gave him notoriety that still persists to this day. More than 300 years later, we still want to know the true story of the Man in the Iron Mask. The question has inspired writers, actors, and other creatives to produce artwork illu...
Bénigne Dauvergne de Saint-Mars was appointed Governor of the Bastille in 1698. He arrived there on 18 September with the Man in the Iron Mask and his lieutenant, Durosarge. Durosarge and Saint-Mars had since 1671 kept this prisoner at Pignerol and then, this fortress having been returned to the King of Sardinia , had relocated to Île Sainte ...
Bénigne d'Auvergne de Saint-Mars was a French prison governor in the late 17th and early 18th century. He is best known as the apparent keeper of the Man in the Iron Mask. According to letters written by Saint-Mars to various officials and ministers of France, he had in his custody a prisoner of State, whom he carried with him from Pinerolo to ...
Jun 28, 2019 · The masked man was said to be kept in the custody of a jailer and former musketeer named Bénigne Dauvergne de Saint-Mars, for the whole 34 years of his imprisonment.
May 1, 2018 · Eustache Dauger appeared to be deemed a dangerous man for the secrets he held. And what’s more than that, he appears to have been not a nobleman or a well-bred bourgeoisie, but rather a lowly valet, a manservant. Bénigne Dauvergne de Saint-Mars, governor of the Pignerol prison, via Wikimedia Commons.
