# "The man In the iron mask"-Where Filmed?

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**Created:** [March 11, 2006, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-man-in-the-iron-mask-where-filmed/347970 "2006-03-11T20:48:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2006, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-man-in-the-iron-mask-where-filmed/347970/1 "2006-03-11T20:48:15Z")

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I saw the last version of this film (with Gerard Depardeiu and Leo DiCaprio). It wasn’t a bad flick, but I have a few questions:  
-is the story true/ did the King of France have a twin brother who was imprisioned wearing a mask?  
-was the movie filmed at the palace of Versailles? Man, what a place!  
Those fountains were cool-did the King actually turn on hideen fountains to wet his guests down?

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**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2006, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-man-in-the-iron-mask-where-filmed/347970/2 "2006-03-11T22:13:07Z")

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[The Straight Dope](http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mmaninmask.html) on the subject.

Don’t know the answer to your other questions.

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**Author:** ![Rayne\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@Rayne\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rayne_Man)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2006, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-man-in-the-iron-mask-where-filmed/347970/3 "2006-03-11T22:51:48Z")

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I know that some of the film was made at The Chateau of Vaux-le-Vicomte. I have visited this house and is is very lavish, except it was never quite finished . This was because, as this [link](http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/arch/vaux_vicomte.html) shows, the owner was locked up just after it was opened. Probably because the king suspected he was diverting government funds to build the Château. According to the IMDp , the other locations were Fontainebleau and Château de Pierrefonds.

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**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2006, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-man-in-the-iron-mask-where-filmed/347970/4 "2006-03-12T01:22:07Z")

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Here in the UK, we have a fine comedy program ‘I’m sorry, I haven’t a clue’.

One comedian was asked to do ‘the diary of the man in the iron mask’, which included these gems:

Monday - got an itch inside my mask  
Tuesday - decided to scratch the itch with a carrot. Carrot broke off. Now I have a carrot inside my mask.  
Wednesday - could be worse. New chap next door is ‘the man in the iron underpants’