Historian Reveals Who The Man In The Iron Mask Likely Was 

In keeping with the general anti-french sentiment of the pod. Love the pod. Love the jokes. Still. Their dislike is often quite evident. As a French Brit (we exist) - saddens me.

@@louisdaillencourt2454 They are just messing. They seem to adore French culture.

​@@louisdaillencourt2454 I believe it is a British national obligation and duty to the English crown. 👑

​@louisdaillencourt2454 Perhaps you have missed out on the irony in your British blood. You should be laughing, Louis

​@@d.c.8828 At the very least.

With Tom laughing in the background.

And he wasn’t allowed to talk to anyone, must have gone totally mental

Perhaps him being a double agent they couldn’t figure out if he was working for the English or the Dutch. So perhaps he was kept alive incase a future negotiation with the English/Dutch he could be used as a barter chip. What was in his head was worth something. Maybe 🤷‍♂️

He was not killed because Louvois had previously used Eustache to attempt to kill by poison his then enemy Colbert. So Louvois on his own authority had him imprisoned for life, but could not bring himself to order his death. So he used a pre signed arrest warrant to have Eustace D.arrested and hauled well out of the way to Pignerol, and promised Eustache his life if he kept his mouth shut. Since Eustache indeed was a criminal poisoner he was content to trade his freedom for a prison life. Hence the security but no execution.

He knew something and/ or was somebody of great importance

I think he was of royal blood. Or maybe man of cloth?

I take small issue. Thrones is very Dumas like ! Three Musketeers AND Count of Monte Cristo, so many ! Victor Hugo's work, and Don Quixote, shelves of different authors, each with an eye for telling a great tale. All this original material, many authors having lived lives as colorful, if not moreso, than their characters. Then... the 1st rock star.. Byron..whose wife in the early 1800s said he is "mad, bad and dangerous to know" she really is - a " fine" one, his life so outrageous, original and he so genius he makes Jim Morrison and River Phoenix look like 2 sopranos in the Vienna Boy Choir and his daughter, dear God a gene pool so filled with talent it requires its own train, a mathematician and truly invents writing code while she seduces some pre tee wild and unusual characters. and WHAT?? A tv serial stuns a Covid zoned public who almost immediately fall into Mass Stockholm Syndrome, their captors a coupla B list Hollywood producers and a streaming service. The poor prisoners unfamiliar with characters and storylines far more well drawn sitting in quiet shelved rooms waiting for them

Surely it’s a case of, which came first? Game of Thrones builds on all kinds of weird and wonderful history and legend from across the world, set in a world that draws on history and fantasy fiction. It’s GOT that is derived, not this story, though the legends around it are both creative and probably also derivative.

No game of thrones is based on the wars of the roses hun

​@@user-te4of2fq5dliterally not at all

Here, here!​@@user-te4of2fq5d

It was a movie movie 😄. I saw it a couple of times in cinema. Beautiful.

Eustache

Eustache Dauger, (or possibly d'auger, or d'anger, or Danger) The spelling on the actual document is unclear.

He must have developed a massive beard? Probably very itchy in the mask too!

Even more basic: how did he even eat?

Likely the mask was removed periodically for eating and other stuff.

​@@MrAgonizomaiIt's described in this podcast 😄

He didn't

That's what I thought.

Where did I get that?

@@nadinehawkins6420 i think from the movie lol