We place little credence in a “story”-perhaps, a bit more faith in “his-story”. Dumas (Pere) has given us some of the world’s finest “stories”, and as in this short monograph on “The Man in the Iron Mask,” some very well documented “history.” He concluded 150 years ago that these events were a mystery and now 300 years from the era of Louis XIV-they remain so. Many historians from Voltaire down through other famous authorities have given us the final answer to this puzzle. But history students should keep always in mind the words of the revered historian Will Durant:
“If you believe history-and you must not. . . . . . ”
D.W.
This is the essay entitled The Man in the Iron Mask, not the novel [The Man in the Iron Mask [The Novel] Dumas #28[nmaskxxx.xxx]2759]