单词 | the man in the iron mask |
释义 | > as lemmasthe Man in (also with) the Iron Mask the Man in (also with) the Iron Mask: (a name given to) a political prisoner in France at the time of Louis XIV whose face was disguised by a mask said to be made of iron.The identity of the prisoner, who died in the Bastille in 1703, has been the subject of much speculation and still remains unknown. ΚΠ 1752 tr. Voltaire Age of Lewis XIV II. xxiv. 10 The marshal de Feuillade..has told me, that when his father-in-law [sc. Chamillard] was dying, he conjured him..to tell him who this person was, who had been known by no other name than that of the man with the iron mask [Fr. l'homme au masque de fer]. Chamillard answered him, it was the secret of state, and he had sworn never to reveal it. 1780 tr. J. M. Brossays du Perry Hist. Remarks & Anecd. Bastille 23 The famous Bastille prisoner, known by the name of the man in the iron mask, was lodged in the chamber called the third Bertaudiere. 1804 European Mag. Oct. 273/2 The history of the man with the Iron Mask, of whom so much has already been said and written, will soon be augmented with a new chapter. 1899 Eng. Hist. Rev. 14 375 The man in the iron mask..appears from conclusive documentary evidence to have been Mattioli, secretary of state to the duke of Mantua. 1910 H. A. Guerber Story of Old France lxxxv. 337 Dumas..romantically asserted that the Man with the Iron Mask was a twin brother of Louis XIV. 1968 M. Guybon tr. A. Solzhenitsyn First Circle x. 52 At all times the privileged prisoner's cell was in semi-darkness... The other prisoners nicknamed him ‘The Man in the Iron Mask’. No one knew his real name. 2006 Math Horizons 13 5/2 The Man in the Iron Mask was revealed to be General Bulonde, locked in the fortress of Pignerole as punishment for retreating from his battle position in Cuneo. < as lemmas |
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