The Man Behind the Iron Mask
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: September 15, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780312123451
Subjects: Europe - France; France; World; World - General; History / France; History - General History; History: World
First sentence: Lost in subterranean darkness, in cavernous galleries and labyrinthine passageways, a door of massive wood, reinforced with iron, scrapes open on rusted hinges and reveals a vaulted dungeon, dank and bare, where sits the skeleton of a prisoner hung with chains, the bones strung together by rags of clothing, the skull enclosed in an iron mask.