The True History of the State Prisoner, commonly called the Iron Mask. Dover George Agar Ellis
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Название: The True History of the State Prisoner, commonly called the Iron Mask
Автор: Dover George Agar Ellis
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Appendix, No. 107.
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Appendix, No. 106.
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Appendix, No. 108.
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Appendix, No. 103.
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Appendix, No. 104.
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Ibid.
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Appendix, No. 105.
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If we were to judge of the Christian religion by the manner in which it was professed by Lewis the Fourteenth, we should indeed have a most perverted idea of its precepts. It seems as if the pseudo-christianity of that monarch, only incited him to acts of narrow-minded bigotry and cruelty, allowing, at the same time, full latitude to every kind of licentious excess; while it debarred him from the exercise of humanity and toleration. A good measure of the nature and extent of his religious knowledge and feelings is acquired, by the anecdote respecting Fontpertuis and the Duke of Orleans. When the latter was going into Spain, Lewis objected to his taking the former with him, because he was a Jansenist; but withdrew the objection when assured by the duke that he was only an atheist!
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M. Roux (Fazillac), quoting from an unpublished letter of Louvois to St. Mars, dated December 14th, 1681.
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About 1
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Exiles was taken from the French in 1708, by the Duke of Savoy, but restored to them by the treaty of Utrecht.
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Appendix, No. 111.
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Appendix, No. 111.
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Appendix, No. 112.
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Appendix, No. 111.
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Appendix, No. 112.
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Ibid.
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Appendix, No. 115.
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Appendix, No. 111.
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Appendix, No. 117.
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Appendix, No. 113.
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Appendix, No. 120.
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Appendix, No. 121.
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Appendix, No. 121.
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Appendix, No. 123.
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Roux (Fazillac).
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Ibid.
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Ibid.
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Appendix, No. 124.
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Appendix, No. 125.
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Appendix, No. 124.
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Appendix, No. 126.
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Delort.
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Extract of Dujonca’s journal, in Mr. Craufurd’s article upon “L’Homme au Masque de fer.”
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Delort.
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Papon in his “Histoire générale de Provence” informs us that he went to see the room.
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“Histoire générale de Provence, du Père Papon.”
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See “Mélanges d’Histoire et de Littérature,” by Mr. Quintin Craufurd.
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See the same work of Mr. Quintin Craufurd.
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This must have been Lewis Francis Le Tellier, Marquis de Barbezieux, who, in the preceding year, had succeeded his father, Louvois, in the post of Secretary of State for the War Department. He was an indolent but intelligent Minister. – Died in 1701, aged 33.
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Appendix, No. 127.
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Delort.
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Delort, quoting from an unpublished letter (probably from Barbezieux), dated August 4th, 1698. – It may be as well to mention here that M. Delort frequently quotes portions of letters from the French Archives, but does not publish them in his appendix. When in the course of this narrative the name of M. Delort is given as an authority, it is, for the most part, under these circumstances.
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Such is the account given by M. de Palteau, the direct descendant of St. Mars, in a letter to Freron, dated Palteau, June 19th, 1768. It was published in the “Année Littéraire” for that year, and has since been republished by Mr. Craufurd, in his paper on the Iron Mask.
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Delort.
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The place of “Lieutenant de Roi,” at the Bastille, was created by Lewis the Fourteenth, for M. Dujonca, who had been “Exempt” of one of the regiments of the King’s Body-guards. He acquired great credit by his endeavours to procure the release of the prisoners under his care, whom, upon inquiry, he found to be unjustly detained. Some one represented to him that he would deprive himself of a great portion of his profits by thus diminishing the number of prisoners – to which he replied, “
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These towers are supposed to have been so called from the names of the architects who built them.
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Rosarges was made Major of the Bastille by St. Mars.
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Extract from the Journal of Dujonca, first published by Griffet, then by St. Foix, and subsequently by Mr. Craufurd.
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Appendix, No. 128.
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Mr. Craufurd, on the authority of Linguet.
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Delort and Craufurd.
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Appendix, No. 129.
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Appendix, No. 129.
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Delort.
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Mr. Craufurd, on the authority of M. Delaunay, Governor of the Bastille. Also Register of the Bastille; for which see Appendix, No. 129.
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Stephen Francis, Duke de Choiseul, Prime Minister under Lewis the Fifteenth, for above twelve years. A man of some talent, but an unskilful and extravagant minister; in spite of which, on his disgrace, (through the means of Madame du Barri, in 1770) he was turned into a martyr, by the influence of the ladies of the court, who were angry with the King for choosing his mistresses from the lower orders, СКАЧАТЬ