Marcel Pagnol

Yeah.

So there's a guy called Marcel Pagnol.

He wrote two plays, Marius and Fanny, and then he made the third one of the trilogy, César, as a movie.

So it's like a little collaborative thing.

Royal Denial During the 18th century, some members of the French royal court claimed that the story of the masked man was a fabrication.

Giacomo Casanova recorded a conversation with a playwright who had been a royal censor.

This official stated that Louis XIV himself had once personally confirmed that the man in the iron mask never actually existed.

According to this account, the entire narrative was a legend or a fable rather than a historical reality.

Numerous writers and historians throughout the 18th and 19th centuries favored the idea that the prisoner was the twin brother of Louis XIV.

This list of authors includes Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas.

In 1965, the playwright Marcel Pagnol proposed that a twin was born second and hidden away to prevent any future disputes over who should inherit the throne.

During that era, there was a legal debate over whether the firstborn or the secondborn twin should be considered the elder.