**HISTORY REPEATS? PERRY’S ‘BLACK HOLE’ ESCAPE SPARKS COMPARISONS TO NOTORIOUS 17th-CENTURY FUGITIVE PIERRE DENY**
**PARIS** – In an eerie echo of a forgotten chapter of French colonial history, the brazen escape of tech mogul Pierre Perry from a maximum-security facility last night has historians drawing jaw-dropping parallels to a 17th-century criminal whose name is almost identical: **Pierre Deny**.
Perry, the disgraced fintech billionaire, vanished from his cell at 2:14 AM, leaving behind a baffling pile of obsidian sand and a single cryptic note reading “La Porte Noire.” Authorities are stunned.
But it was historian Dr. Elara Vance who noticed the pattern. “This is the ghost of New France,” she said. “In 1688, ‘Pierre Deny’ was a master counterfeiter and alchemist who escaped the Bastille a full hour *before* he was even arrested. He then disappeared into the wilderness of Acadia, allegedly through a ‘hole in the world’ that locals called the *Noir Porte*.”
The *1690* archives describe Deny’s jail cell as being filled with “glistening black grains” — identical to the substance found in Perry’s cell. Even more bizarre: Deny’s last recorded words were “Une porte s’ouvre où un homme ferme les yeux” — “A door opens where a man closes his eyes.” Perry’s final known tweet, posted seconds before his escape, read: “Close your eyes. The door is open. #NoirPorte.”
“This is either the most elaborate historical troll in history, or Perry has tapped into something Deny found 300 years ago,” said cryptographer Julian Brass. “The signatures are mathematically identical. It’s as if