You know this is Shahrzad, it is sometimes unbearable, uncontrollable,  swirling, unpredictable, restless, and yet still so adorable. Like its  accuracy. The famous Sherlock Holmes would probably have liked the court  and share with her adventures. There are women like that. They like a  straw at your fingertips and they use it to stir the neurons of their  lovers. They love to blow the fire in people's minds. They keep coming  back to the load. Poor Sherlock, he probably would not have the  distance. I'm kidding. 
    
   past few days already, Shahrzad uses once more my fingers to probe one  of the mysteries of history, a famous mystery, that of the Iron Mask.  This puzzles of great writers like Voltaire, Dumas Pagnol for example,  that proposed solutions but none seem convincing. Why did Louis XIV,  absolute monarch, ruling monarch challenged from the outset, had he used  this terrible way to frighten his opponents? That's what intrigues  Shahrzad is what she wants to know. She immediately made a comparison  between the murderous paranoia of the Caliph Harun Al Rashid, it treats  the case in Baghdad, is its main function, and what seems to be also a  form of mental illness among the Sun King . The power to assert must be  feared at first, trying to make love Then, it is about survival and it  is already a form of murderous madness in itself. 
  
   http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homme_au_masque_de_fer  
  
   http://users.belgacom.net/renedec/pagehis2.htm  
  
   http://www .jesuiscultive.com / spip.php? Article11  
  
     http://www.planet-techno-science.com/sciences-humaines/les-restes-de-lhomme-au-masque-de-fer-  -Russian-researchers find yourself /  
  
   http://unesolitude.unblog.fr/2007/04/12/le-masque-de-fer/  
  
   http://muses-du-net.cultureforum.net/t75-homme-celebre-l-homme-au-masque-de-fer  
  
   Those at the top of pyramids of power are they ( are they) all crazy  and very dangerous even crazy? Shahrzad is the reasoning. It is always  straightforward and that's what amuses me most about this Newton  feminine, she hates appearances. Of course, it is easy to detect the  paranoia of a Stalin or a Hitler, to calculate the damage amounting to  millions of victims, but this is still an amazing thing at Shahrzad, its  way of reasoning, it seeks the advantage. For her, the disease follows  an order, protect First one who develops and incubates. 
   http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parano% C3% AFa  
   The paranoia is not the only form of mental illness which is "to  protect" women or men greedy for power and that seem to follow only one  goal, to reach the top of the pyramid, where they think is more  sheltered, the most enjoyable place for them, because it is a form of  research pleasure. 
  
   The lethality is observed in the elimination of rival clans opposing it  leads to absolutism and a vast solitude, he is de facto to the desert  around us, to accept as submitted harmless, neutered next to the power  itself. It is a paradox of these mental illnesses that produce the  opposite of what is desired by the patient. Not easy to keep a foothold  in reality. Louis XIV and Harun Al Rashid, however, will come to get  away, to take advantage of this form of drama he must live. How? Because  it will be very well supported, because they find a stable anchor in  love. This will create two different kinds of civilizations pinnacle of  enlightened absolutism, with the final explosion artistic and cultural  advances in all kinds areas. Louis XIV did not say "the state is me" as  they wanted him to say, but in his will on his deathbed, he confided  that he was only the first servant of the state, nothing else. 
  
   One of the commonest forms of madness of power is the loss of contact  with reality. This leads to exaggeration, manipulation, conspiracy holds  that power itself always like bad dreams he seeks to exorcise. It is  normal to be so because the authority is a form of illusion. It can not  be sustained by generating illusions, and often all sorts of propaganda  which are only delusions actually. Hitler confessed: "Moreover, these  delusions are bigger and they will be easy to ensure that the people do  own these delusions!" 
  
   And it makes a big difference between the Kings, the true guides of  their people and the insane criminals who have lost their footing, it is  the difference between a Louis XIV and Joseph Stalin for example. The  king, the first servant of the people, therefore, is one who knows how  to govern by the imagination is that which is feared by the imagination.  
  
   Harun Al Rashid, the caliph madman who cut off the heads of his wives  on the first night. Shahrzad in the story, she creates an imaginary fun.  Which can then know what is true or not in this story. It does not  matter, the nation has its share of dreams, he dreams even awake and he  smiles, he laughs very good heart tales, fables and fabrications,  delusions and other inventions Shahrzad. 
  
   Man in the Iron Mask, what an incredible stroke of genius!  
  
   Who had the idea? Really this is the most interesting in this story.  What message is the first question that comes to me. It seems very  simple. My absolute king, I can not just take your freedom, lock you up  for life if that is my desire, but I can also make you disappear, remove  your identity. Voltaire did not make a mistake. The Iron Mask is the  best symbol of absolute power. But all the intelligence of King Louis  XIV, will remain at a symbol and why it was still only need one. 
  
   Yes, the history of the Iron Mask is a stroke of genius, an  extraordinary conspiracy of royalty, a staging. It is almost Molière,  but no, I do not think either that Molière ale designed it, no, I rather  think of Louis XIV himself. Why? Just because this iron mask or thick  black velvet or leather, is a ritual known among sado masochistic and it  is even a sort of archetype in this kind of sexual practices. We  recover here some features of behavior of the Sun King. 
  
   Man in the Iron Mask, a certain form of humor.  
  
   I am surprised that Voltaire, Dumas, Pagnol, and many other famous  writers did not report it. If, however, there is a rumor. Molière would  have been the man in the iron mask. After all, why not. A valet was  enough to play this role full time. Guests pass the distinguished guests  who wanted to live the strange experience of confinement, the total  loss of identity, hidden in a secret cell of the kingdom, which no one  could cry out, should not be missed. I find Molière pretty crazy for  wanting to experiment in connivance with Louis XIV. Yes you can. Louis  XIV tried it you it too? It is more than capable too. 
  
   What matters in this symbol is that the people perceive humor, humor  very fine, very fine, a comedy that casts doubt. It's very similar with  the 1001 nights Shahrzad. The Caliph's crazy, it can cut the head of  whoever he wants, when he wants, he has the right, authority. Yet the  Caliph shows that it is truly a great king, he does not use this power,  he plays, he plays with it, it encourages the freedom to think and  create in respect for his authority. It is a form of balance, harmony,  recall the rules. 
  
   peoples in their care have preferred to show the Kings, from time to  time, at the option of revolutions, they too could cut their royalty  when they wanted. 
  (C) Ivano Ghirardini, February 27, 2011 
Une traduction amusante trouvée sur le net d'un de nos articles de Facebook. Je prète mes doigts à l'illustre Shahrzad pour ces articles. D'autres traduisent par plaisir. C'est fou combien Shahrzad a de fans partout dans le monde. Bisous, bisous à elle!
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