The Man in the Iron Mask

By Lang, Andrew, M. A.

Book Id: WPLBN0000627221
Format Type: PDF eBook
File Size: 46.69 KB
Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	The Man in the Iron Mask
Author:	Lang, Andrew, M. A.
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Blackmask Online Collection
Historic Publication Date:
Publisher:	Blackmask Online


Citation APA MLA Chicago M.A, A. L. (n.d.). The Man in the Iron Mask. Retrieved from https://self.gutenberg.org/

Description
Excerpt: I. THE LEGEND The Mystery of the Man in the Iron Mask is, despite a pleasant saying of Lord Beaconsfield?s, one of the most fascinating in history. By a curious coincidence the wildest legend on the subject, and the correct explanation of the problem, were offered to the world in the same year, 1801. According to this form of the legend, the Man in the Iron Mask was the genuine Louis XIV., deprived of his rights in favor of a child of Anne of Austria and of Mazarin. Immured in the Isles Sainte?Marguerite, in the bay of Cannes (where you are shown his cell, looking north to the sunny town), he married, and begot a son. That son was carried to Corsica, was named de Buona Parte, and was the ancestor of Napoleon. The Emperor was thus the legitimate representative of the House of Bourbon.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: The Man in the Iron Mask, 1 -- Andrew Lang, 1 -- I. THE LEGEND, 1 -- II. THE VALET'S HISTORY, 2 -- III. THE VALET'S MASTER, 10 -- The Man in the Iron Mask -- i