Who was the masked prisoner held for decades in the fortresses of Louis XIV? Topin works through the candidates proposed over more than a century — a twin brother of the king, the Duke of Beaufort, Fouquet, the Armenian patriarch Avedick and others — testing each against the archives before making his case for the Italian diplomat Count Mattioli.
A historical detective story built from state papers, for anyone who has read Dumas and wondered about the truth. Download the free EPUB.