The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas

The Man in the Iron Mask

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The Man in the Iron Mask Plot Summary

The three Musketeers namely , Athos , Porthos , and Aramis have already parted their separate ways . D 'Artagnan , however , the musketeers ' young protygy , have stayed in service and in utmost loyalty to the young King Louis XIV , who cares for nothing about his people , leading therefore his mainland territory , France in grave turmoil . D 'Artagnan furthermore is the Captain of King Louis ' musketeers . The monarch 's people are subjected to mass starvation while his army of men

fought several intolerable wars . Deep inside the Bastille , on the other hand a 23-year-old prisoner remained unidentified and pined away for almost eight years . Surreptitiously concealed as Phillippe , the captive was forced to wear an iron mask , reflective of how his true identity as King Louis XIV 's twin brother was similarly kept under wraps . As was aforementioned , King Louis ' sovereignty over France had resulted to be nothing less than unbecoming . King Louis has killed Arthos ' son and he also has managed to pilfer a woman out of her true love . Provided such circumstances , the three musketeers Athos , Porthos and Aramis lead into the concoction of a plan and decided to overthrow the iniquitous ruler by virtue of being replaced then by his incarcerated twin , whom the three musketeers have resourceful information on and thought of as better to be a king . So in the event that the musketeers have trained and inculcated unto Phillippe the ways and decors of a royal blood Athos , Porthos and Aramis kidnaps King Louis and supplant him with Phillippe at a masquerade

Historical Events depicted

During the reign of King Louis XIV as an obstinate ruler did a famous prisoner in the history of France , L 'homme Au Masque de Fer , has been rumored of great speculations . He has long been believed to have been imprisoned in the Bastille until the year 1703 . Just as Alexandre Dumas 's

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novel delineates , L 'homme Au Masque de Fer , also has been masked but not by an iron rather a velvet one , which through the passing of the course of history have then progressed into a mask of iron . It was in the year 1669 when the minister of King Louis sent a captive to the governor of Sainte Marquis de Saint Mars who at the same instance holds the Pignerol prison . The prisoner was well taken care of but was kept incommunicado and was gravely threatened of death once he tried to stray out of his personal affiliations . In 1687 , the prisoner was brought in the island of Sainte Marguerite where he was exiled and singly incarcerated at the third chamber of the Bertaudiere tower . On November 19 , 1703 , the prisoner died and was buried shortly the next day under the name of Marchioly . All the belongings he left was reportedly trashed thereafter and it was believed that most of the details of his life were accounted by Lt du Junca of Bastille...