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As enigmatic as he might be, the prisoner known as the Iron Mask, whose identity has not yet been established with certainty, definitely existed in France at the turn of the XVIIth Century. In Québec, a recluse living on Petite île aux Oies was given the name of this historical character in the XIXth Century. Around this man, Pierre Bécart de Granville, son of the first seigneur to settle on the island, there developed a legendary narrative. This paper examines the different elements of this narrative in the light of the written documents of that period concerning Pierre Bécart and take in account the results of the archeological excavations done on the site of the manor where he lived.
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Perpetrated in Nîmes by Calvinists in 1567, the Michelade is one of the most famous massacres committed during the French Wars of Religion. In order to shed light on its representations over a long time frame, this article examines the works of Catholic and Protestant historians published since the 16th century from the perspective of scandal and silence. In particular, it shows that, until the 1680s, the authors of both confessions almost never mention the episode, before Catholics begin to relate and condemn it. The opposition of the two historiographies continues until the 1960s. Since then, Protestant discretion and Catholic denunciations have disappeared in academic publications.
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