"Pain, anguish, and suffering in human life are always in proportion to the strength with which a man is endowed." The Man in the Iron Mask (French: L'Homme au Masque de Fer; 1640 -1703) was an unidentified prisoner who was arrested in 1669 or 1670 and subsequently held in a number of French prisons. The Man in the Iron Mask has in many works of fiction, most prominently in the late 1840s ..
