Man in the Iron Mask 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. Fouquet's cell was above that of Lauzun. In his letters to Louvois, Saint-Mars describes Dauger as a quiet man, giving no trouble, "disposed to the will of God and to the king", compared to his other prisoners, who were either always complaining, constantly trying to escape, or simply mad. Dauger was not
The Fifth Musketeer made a cameo appearance as the Queen Mother. This was de Havilland's final theatrical film. The cinematographer was Jack Cardiff. In what may have been an instance of stunt casting, Alan Hale Jr. played the same character, Porthos, that his lookalike father, Alan Hale Sr., did in 1939's "The Man in the Iron Mask". The Fifth Musketeer The Fifth Musketeer is a 1979 German-Austrian film adaptation of the last section of the novel "" by Alexandre Dumas, père, which is itself based on the French legend of the Man in the Iron Mask. It was directed by Ken Annakin, and