The Man in the Iron Mask: The Mystery Solved - Hardcover

The Man in the Iron Mask: The true story of the most famous prisoner in history and the four Musketeers.

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Buchbeschreibung Zustand: Gut. 348 p.: Ill. Lediglich der Schutzumschlag ist leicht berieben und der Unterschnitt weist einen kleinen Farbfleck auf. Sonst aber ein sehr gutes und sauberes Exemplar/ Only the dust jacket is lightly rubbed and the undercut has a small ink stain. Otherwise a very good and clean copy. - "They never existed and were simply bastards of my imagination," said Alexandre Dumas of his famous Three Musketeers, but this is untrue. Athos, Aramis and Porthos were flesh and blood. Their supposedly fictional duel with Cardinal Richelieu s guards actually took place in 1640 and Charles d Artagnan, a teenager on his first day in Paris, fought alongside them. Many other elements of the tale are also true the Cardinal s agent, Milédi de Winter, really was an English aristocrat and, against all odds, d Artagnan did succeed in becoming Captain of the King s Musketeers, the only person whom Louis XIV could trust to arrest his over-mighty minister, Fouquet. It was d Artagnan who escorted Fouquet to the feared Alpine fortress of Pignerol, the jail that would also become home to the most mysterious of all prisoners, the Man in the Iron Mask. Oxford historian Roger Macdonald has spent five years unraveling fact from fiction to uncover the true story of the Musketeers and their connection with the Man in the Iron Mask. It is a reality more extraordinary than any tale Dumas could devise. Honor and heroism, betrayal and intrigue, are set amidst the lust jealousy and deadly poisons that made the Sun King s Court a world of frenzied paranoia. The Musketeers ride again across the pages of real history in this superbly researched account, and in his exciting denouement Macdonald at last reveals the identity of the Man in the Iron Mask. CONTENT: A Gascon in Paris The Devil s Child Cyrano de Bergerac Death of a Musketeer Nothing but a Sword The Fall of Fouquet The Three Queens The Double Agent Return to Pignerol The Black Mass The Mystery of Maastricht The Secret Prisoner Powders for Death, Powders for Love The Two Merles of Monsieur Saint-Mars The Fire Tongs Affair The Biographer s Tale. ISBN 9780786716067 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 720 Hardback edition with dust jacket. Artikel-Nr. 1219155

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