eustache dauger de cavoye

Voltaire was imprisoned in the Bastille for about a year in 1717 where he met many inmates who had supposedly come in contact with the mysterious prisoner while he was still alive. Another interesting theory belongs to Louis Gendron, a French military historian who came across some coded letters, later passed to Etienne Bazeries in the French Army’s cryptographic department during the 1890s. Incidentally, there is no historical evidence to suggest that the mask was made out of anything but black velvet. Why was his face covered and hidden from public view? Prison cell occupied by the Man in the Iron Mask in the fort-Royal of the Sainte-Marguerite island (Alpes-Maritimes, France). If so, this would have allowed time for the queen to give birth to her second child with the sole company of the midwife. However, in 17th-century French avec un masque would mean "in a mask". As it was, when Fouquet died in 1680, the King was once again in difficulties, afraid that some word might reach Paris about the two black valets who were at Pignerol and that the Queen, hearing about them, would have her suspicions aroused. Madame de Cavoye – Louis and Eustache Dauger de Cavoye's mother. Dumas’ book, although it is considered to be mainly fiction, seems to contain some useful historical data, with the author having conducted quite a detailed investigation into the case. We must consider that Pignerol wasn’t exactly a common jail, but was reserved for a handful of men who were considered an embarrassment to the state. The French public had been made aware of the anonymous prisoner thanks  to a series of short, handwritten notes published in a local Gazette. He was placed in a solitary cell in the pre-furnished third chamber of the Bertaudière tower. It was to forestall this possibility that Louvois gave orders to pretend that the two black valets had been liberated. Since he was a Moor from North Africa, his guards naturally nicknamed him ‘Ali’ and since he was a prisoner of consequence they also gave him the title of Marquis; thus he came to be known within the prison walls as the ‘Marquis Ali’, which on his burial certificate was rendered ‘Marchiali’. It is believed that it was only later that stories came to refer to an iron mask. Man in the Iron Mask by Neuville, 1872. She thought him ‘detestable’, called him ‘horribly vicious’, and claimed that ‘it was nothing for him to burn, poison, lie and cheat.’ That he had secret contact with the criminal underworld of Paris, including those who dealt in poison and black magic arrested in the late 1670s, is an established fact. Williamson held that to say it is a guess with no solid historical basis is merely to say that it is like every other theory on the matter although it makes more sense than any of the other theories; there is no known evidence that is incompatible with it, even the age of the prisoner, which Cecil had considered a weak point; and it explains every aspect of the mystery.[6]. Though permission is given for Danger to act as valet to Fouquet, under no circumstances is he to be allowed contact with Lauzun. However, whether this was his real name or an alias is unclear. Records indicate that he was born on 30 August 1637, the son of François Dauger, a captain in Cardinal Richelieu's guards. At that time poisoning was thought to be rare in France, the work of foreigners, especially Italians. There was also Nicolas Fouquet, Marquis of Belle-Île, a former superintendent of finances, who had been jailed by Louis XIV on the charge of embezzlement; and the Marquis de Lauzun, who had become engaged to the Duchess of Montpensier, a cousin of the King, without the King's consent. Documents have survived indicating that Dauger de Cavoye was held at Saint-Lazare in Paris at about the same time that Dauger, the man in the mask, was taken into custody in Pignerol, hundreds of miles away in the south. The French took possession of Casale two years later. When news of these events became public an enquiry was held and the various perpetrators jailed or exiled. The prison at Pignerol, like the others at which Dauger was later held, was used for men who were considered an embarrassment to the state and usually held only a handful of prisoners at a time. Something unpleasant is sure to happen to one or the other. Perhaps he was a man from the household of Charles and Madame’s mother, Henrietta of France, or alternatively a valet of the Comte de Saint-Albans. It is evident for instance from government dispatches that whereas the prisoner’s security was a major consideration in the decision to transfer Saint-Mars from Pignerol to Exiles, it was no longer an important issue when Saint-Mars was invited to move to the Bastille. However, on 27 December he suddenly became ill again with stomach pains as a result of some medicine he had taken. If Eustache Dauger was not Eustache Dauger de Cavoye, then who was he? The Man in the Iron Mask by Michel Moniquet, 1948. In 1675 Louvois gave permission for such an arrangement on condition that he was to serve Fouquet only while La Rivière was unavailable and that he was not to meet anyone else; for instance, if Fouquet and Lauzun were to meet, Dauger was not to be present. The prisoner died on 19 November 1703 and was buried the next day under the name of Marchioly. However, it should be noted that the aforementioned Lieutenant du Junca who worked at the Bastille noted that the mask was actually made from black velvet when he observed it. The prisoner was forced to wear a mask whenever in public and was warned that if he was ever to expose his identity he would be shot on the spot. If Danger had fallen into the hands of La Reynie and had been made to talk, Louvois would certainly have been incriminated. This theory would explain both the secrecy surrounding the prisoner, whose true identity would have destroyed the legitimacy of Louis XIV had it been revealed, and also - because of the King's respect for his own father - his comfortable imprisonment and why he was not simply killed. Eustache Dauger de Cavoye was the brother of Louis Oger de Cavoye, who was King Louis XIV's Chief Marshall of Lodgings in 1677. One might go further and conclude that if, as seems likely, the King had enough gumption to realize that a black child born to his wife must have been conceived by a black man, then it is even more reasonable to suppose that he would have wished to keep that man locked up and silent for the rest of his life. It was said that she always claimed to be the daughter of the King, even though Madame de Maintenon assured her that she was not. Madame, scorned and furious, turned to the Comte de Guiche for help, and with the Comtesse de Soissons and her lover the Marquis de Vardes sought a means to break up the relationship. François was married to Marie de Sérignan and they had 11 children, nine of whom survived into adulthood. The theory goes that Eustache Dauger was imprisoned for his contributions to the scandal. His Eustache, like Laloy’s, was only a valet, but with a face which made him instantly recognizable: he was black.

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