Fort Royal de l'Île Sainte-Marguerite
Seventeenth-century island fortress and state prison holding the Man in the Iron Mask's barred cell.
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This guide to the Fort Royal on Île Sainte-Marguerite, off Cannes, follows one prisoner and the jailer who never let him out of sight, from an arrest near Calais in sixteen sixty-nine to a guarded journey south across the Alps. It weighs what a man officially called a servant could have known, and why Paris cared so much. Best heard inside the cell itself, beside the barred window.
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