Some say he was actually an Italian diplomat who blabbed about a secret deal, others that he was a courtier involved in the "affair of the poisons" that brought scandal to the court of Versailles.
Some say he was actually an Italian diplomat who blabbed about a secret deal, others that he was a courtier involved in the "affair of the poisons" that brought scandal to the court of Versailles. The two most likely candidates were Ercole Matthioli and Eustache Dauger; regardless, he died in 1703 in the Bastille. FTP, identify this famous prisoner, who was hypothesized to be the elder brother of Louis XIV in a novel by Alexander Dumas.
Some say he was actually an Italian diplomat who blabbed about a secret deal, others that he was a courtier involved in the "affair of the poisons" that brought scandal to the court of Versailles.
The {Man in the Iron Mask}