The True History of the State Prisoner, commonly called the Iron Mask Extracted from Documents in the French Archives

"The True History of the State Prisoner, commonly called the Iron Mask" by George Agar Ellis Dover, is a 19th-century inquiry of the masked prisoner mystery. The book studies papers from French storage, possibly showing the Iron Mask's real identity. It focuses on Hercules Anthony Matthioli and looks at the 17th-century political plotting of Louis XIV's France. The book investigates the identity of the Iron Mask, a puzzle of public interest, as well as past accounts and their misinterpretations. It offers Matthioli's history, relationship to the Dukedom of Mantua, and the events of his imprisonment. The early chapters feature close looks at records proving Matthioli is the Iron Mask, offering an attractive account based on a search for historical facts.