Nicolas Fouquet to visit him only once, in 1679. The former minister bore his imprisonment with fortitude and composed several translations and devotionals in prison. According to official records, Fouquet died in Pinerolo on 23 March 1680. A year after his death, his remains were moved from Pinerolo to the family crypt in the Église Sainte-Marie-des-Anges in Paris. Fouquet's story is often entwined with that of the Man in the Iron Mask, who is often identified as the true king or even as an identical twin brother of Louis XIV. As such, he is a pivotal character in Alexandre Dumas' novel "The
The Man in the Iron Mask (1939 film) image head off together for the "greater adventure beyond." Most subsequent film versions, including the 1977 version and the 1998 version, have followed the basic outline of the 1939 film (and its borrowings from the 1929 version), not of the original novel. The English band Iron Maiden was named by founder Steve Harris after seeing the film. The Man in the Iron Mask (1939 film) The Man in the Iron Mask is a 1939 American film very loosely adapted from the last section of the novel "The Vicomte de Bragelonne" by Alexandre Dumas, père, which is itself based on the