The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1871-09-28
the Iron Mask?" Many volumes have

the names OF men OF many countries
and various conditions, and some wo-
men, too, have figured the Duke Of
Beaufort for instance, surnamed
KING OF THE HALLEs,
who was the natural son of Caesar de
Vendome, the natural son of Henry
w., by Gabriel d'Estrees. But at the
defence of Candle, in 1869, the Turks
took this King of the Halles, cut Oft his
head, and sent it to Constantinople.
The Duke of Monmouth was another.
But, well authenticated state records
prove that the blessed King James had
him publicly executed in the city Of
London, in 1885.
Mathioli, secretary of the Duke Of
Mantua, was another. And an old
physician of Cannes, who was called to
visit him professionally in his prison at
St. Marguerite, declared that "The Man
in the Iron Mask was a woman; that
he knew it by the feeling of his pulse"
Whoever he was, it is quite evident
that the old fox, Cardinal Richelieu, and
the powers he served himself with, did
not wish to have his face seen. Nor
did he deem it expedient to conceal it
at once and forever in the grave; it
served him better to keep it as men
ace for his enemies.
In ian addition of the editor" to the
work of Voltaire, published in I'LL,
and, consequently, while he, Voltaire,
was still living, and which addition "
the learned photographer Beuchot, as
cribes to Voltaire himself it is written:
F" The Man in the Iron Mask was, with
out doubt,
THE son OF ANNE OF AUSTRIA,
and consequently the brother of Louis
XIV, but not the son of Louis Kill,
her husband"
Whoever would know the whole ar
gument may consult the said addition
of the editor" in the published works
Of Voltaire, or by shorter cut may
read in letter of Benjamin Franklin,
written while he was ambassador at
the Court Of Versailles, to John Jay, as
follows:
Yesterday had a conversation with
the Duke de Richelieu He seems fa-
vorahly disposed towards our cause
battered him very much in speaking
Of the administration of his glorious
the Cardinal de Richelieu. |
took advantage of this occasion to ask
him if he was ignorant as to whom the
Man in the Iron Mask was since it was
quite evident that he must have been
born during the administration Of the
Cardinal. My interlocutor at first took
an air Of great mystery; then, telling
NE that the matter in question was a
secret Of State, he revealed to me what
follows, and which, without fear, | con
ide to you The Iron Mask was a
child of Anne, Of Austria, and probably
he Duke Of Buckingham was his faith
n. The queen, having no one in whom
the dared confidc, threw herself into
he arms of her enemy, the Cardinal,
who arranged everything SO as to hide
he affair from the king. 1t was this
went which determined Richelieu to
'ring the king and the queen together
the latter up to this time having been
considered barren; thence the birth of II
Iouis XIV, and Of Monsieur The il
legitimate child, at first confded to
Madame Motteviile, was, after the
leath Of Richelieu, taken away from
Ter by Mazarin, who, from the age of #
sixteen years until his death, kept him {
hut up in prison. The resemblance of !
he captive to Louis XIV. was astonish- |
ng; and thence the mask they made I
i'm wear. They wished to avoid po- f
tical complications as we'll as to hide {
ne weakness Of Anne, Of Austria. +
The story runs that Louis XIV only {
new of the existence Of this elder
rother from Cardinal Mazarin at the ,
our of his death, and then when near >
is own end he confded the secret to !;
he Regent FOrleans, from whose E
aughter, Mile, de Vallois, afterwards 8
duchess Of Modena, the Duke de Richie .
Gu obtained it at a period when he =
vas her lover.
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