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Man in the Iron Mask, the
     
Man in the Iron Mask, the
a man who was kept as a prisoner in the Bastille, a prison in Paris, who died there in 1703. His face was always kept hidden by a mask, and some people believe that he was the brother of the French king Louis XIV, but this is probably not true.
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