Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
For nearly one hundred years this curious problem has exercised the imagination of writers of fiction--and of drama, and the patience of the learned in history. No subject is more obscure and elusive, and none more attractive to the general mind. It is a legend to the meaning...
"On Thursday, September the 8th, 1698, at three o'clock in the afternoon, M. de Saint-Mars, the new governor of the Bastille, entered upon his duties. He arrived from the island...
2. Chapter 2"Cardinal Richelieu, looking with satisfied pride at the love of Gaston, Duc d'Orleans, brother of the king, for his niece Parisiatis (Madame de Combalet), formed the plan of un...
1. Chapter 1For nearly one hundred years this curious problem has exercised the imagination of writers of fiction--and of drama, and the patience of the learned in history. No subject is mo...
4. Chapter 4"'The king in his suspense felt very uncomfortable, and as the queen began to utter cries we feared a second confinement. We sent to inform the king, who was almost overcome by...
5. Chapter 5The first feeling he awakes is one of surprise. It seems odd that he should again bring up the case of Fouquet, who was condemned to imprisonment for life in 1664, confined in P...