Musée du Masque de fer et du Fort Royal
Island fortress prison where a masked state prisoner was held, with barred cells and sea views.
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This guide to the Iron Mask and Royal Fort Museum on Île Sainte-Marguerite, off Cannes, follows the state prisoner who arrived here in the spring of sixteen eighty-seven and the career jailer who never let him out of his sight. It starts with a sum on a Paris burial register that refuses to add up, and reaches back to an arrest near Calais that no document explains. Best heard standing at the barred window of the prison wing, looking across the bay.
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