The Man in the Iron Mask, Alexandre Dumas [read out loud books .TXT] 📗
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
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End of The Man in the Iron Mask. This is the last text in the series.
Footnotes
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[ “He is patient because he is eternal.” is how the Latin translates. It is from St. Augustine. This motto was sometimes applied to the Papacy, but not to the Jesuits.]
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[ In the five-volume edition, Volume 4 ends here.]
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[ It is possible that the preceding conversation is an obscure allegorical allusion to the Fronde, or perhaps an intimation that the Duc was the father of Mordaunt, from Twenty Years After, but a definite interpretation still eludes modern scholars.]
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[ The dictates of such a service would require Raoul to spend the rest of his life outside of France, hence Athos’s and Grimaud’s extreme reactions.]
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[ Dumas here, and later in the chapter, uses the name Roncherat. Roncherolles is the actual name of the man.]
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[ In some editions, “in spite of Milady” reads “in spite of malady”.]
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[ “Pie” in this case refers to magpies, the prey for the falcons.]
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[ Anne of Austria did not die until 1666, and Dumas sets the current year as 1665.]
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[ Madame de Montespan would oust Louise from the king’s affections by 1667.]
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[ De Guiche would not return to court until 1671.]
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[ Madame did die of poison in 1670, shortly after returning from the mission described later. The Chevalier de Lorraine had actually been ordered out of France in 1662.]
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[ This particular campaign did not actually occur until 1673.]
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[ Jean-Paul Oliva was the actual general of the Jesuits from 1664-1681.]
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[ In earlier editions, the last line reads, “Of the four valiant men whose history we have related, there now no longer remained but one single body; God had resumed the souls.” Dumas made the revision in later editions.]
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