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This legend was circulated in 1801, and is referred to in a proclamation of the Royalists of La Vendee. It is certain that Roux Fazaillac was right; or that, if he was wrong, the Man in the Iron Mask was an obscure valet, of French birth, residing in England, whose real name was Martin.
"You must never, under any pretenses listen to what he may wish to tell you. You must threaten him with death if he speaks one word except about his actual needs. He is only a valet, and does not need much furniture." The letters are printed by Roux Fazaillac, Jung, Lair, and others. He has mentioned this prisoner, he says, to no mortal.
Others held that he was James, Duke of Monmouth or Moliere! In 1770 Heiss identified him with Mattioli, the Mantuan intriguer, and especially after the appearance of the book by Roux Fazaillac, in 1801, that was the generally accepted opinion. It MAY be true, in part.
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