No. 127. Saint-Mars to the Minister. Relation of the conduct of two Protestant Ministers Extract from the Register of the Bastille, published in the Work entitled "La Bastille Dévoilée" Second Extract from the Register of the Bastille, pub- Interceptée," by M. Lewis Dutens, published in 1789 346 Extract from the article on the Iron Mask in the Work Letter from the Baron de Heiss to the Authors of the "Journal Encyclopédique," on the subject of the Iron Mask; published in that Journal in 1770 HISTORY OF THE IRON MASK. THE curiosity of the public has been now, for above a century, so much wrought upon by the mystery which has enveloped the name of the Iron Mask, (or, as the French more properly designate him, "the Man of the Iron Mask,"*) that the eagerness for discovery has thus been carried much farther than the real importance of the subject deserved. Numerous have been the papers written, and the conjectures hazarded in favour of different theories; almost all presenting, at first *“L'homme au masque de fer." B |