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Sainte-Marguerite and the Man in the Iron Mask
Legend has it that Marguerite, sister of St Honorat, founded a convent for holy Christian women on this island, but it broke her heart that her austere brother would only come to visit her when a certain almond tree blossomed. Marguerite asked God to make him come more often and her prayer was answered when the almond tree miraculously began to bloom every month. St Marguerite has nicer beaches than St-Honorat, especially on the south end of Chemin de la Chasse. At the beginning of 2003, the island's forest became a nature reserve.<br />
On the north end stands the gloomy Fort Royal, with a little aquarium and a Musee de la Mer which displays finds from submarine digs.The fort was built by Richelieu as a defence againstthe Spaniards (who got it anyway) and improved by Vauban in 1712. By then the fortress mainly served as a prison, especially for the mysterious Man in the Iron Mask,whowas transferred here from Pignerolesi 1687and ended upinthe Bastille in 1698. Speculation about the man's identity continues at least to divert historiians (who insist that the mask was actually leather): was he Louis XIV's twin, as Voltaire suggested.or, according to a more recent theory, the gossiping son-in-law of the doctor who performed the autopsy on Louis XIII and discovered that the king was incapatale of producing children? Later prisoners included six Huguenot pastors who dared to return to France after Louis XIV's revocation of the Edict of Nantes-, they were kept in solitary confinement until ali but one of them went mad.