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conversations.value: A title for this story could be 'The Man in the Iron Mask'
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conversations.value: Give me a description for a story titled The Man in the Iron Mask about Frank, Morlock, Alexandre with the genre: Comics & Graphic Novels, Graphic Novels.
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conversations.value: Frank J. Morlock has translated the works of Alexandre Dumas, Victor Hugo, and other 19th century French playwrights and authors. His translation of The Man in the Iron Mask is the first published English-language edition of this play.
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conversations.value: Give me a description for a story titled The Man in the Iron Mask about Philip, Rampick, England with the genre: Literature & Fiction, British & Irish.
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conversations.value: Philip Rampick, an impoverished recluse and memoirist living in a down-at-the-heels housing project somewhere in England, suffers the delusion that he is "the Man in the Iron Mask" immortalized in Dumas's novel. Aside from his strange spinster sister, Sylvia, his only apparent contact with reality is the neighbor, companion, confidant, and "jailer" who narrates the story and becomes obsessed with Rampick's life, modus vivendi, and compulsively kept "diary." Gradually and inevitably, the narrator's obsession becomes his nemesis and undoing. Originally published in Britain, this strange and fascinating novel features an intricately textured plot and a startling denouement. A complex and compelling study in madness. Ronald L. Coombs, SUNY Health Sciences Ctr., Brooklyn Lib.<BR>Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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conversations.value: Give me a plot for a story titled The Man in the Iron Mask about Celebrated, French, Romantic with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction.
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conversations.value: The Man in the Iron Mask (1939 film): In 1638, King Louis XIII of France is delighted when his wife bears him a son, Louis, the heir to the throne.\nHowever, a few minutes later, a second son is born.\nColbert (Walter Kingsford), the king\'s trusted adviser, persuades the king to secretly send the second child, Philippe, away to Gascony to be raised by his majesty\'s dear friend, d\'Artagnan (Warren William), in order to avert a possible civil war later.\nFouquet (Joseph Schildkraut), a mere cardinal\'s messenger at the time, finds out about the twin and uses this to advance his career.\nTwenty years later, he is the Minister of Finance under Louis XIV.\nThe king is hated by the commoners for levying oppressive taxes and for executioning them for not paying them.\nFouquet sends soldiers to force d\'Artagnan and his people to pay the taxes, though the old king had exempted him and his village from them.\nThey are driven off, but return in much greater numbers and, with great difficulty, capture d\'Artagnan, the three musketeers and Philippe.\nLouis is about to order their executions when Colbert tells him about Philippe\'s uncanny resemblance to him.\nAs Louis is aware of an assassination attempt to take place that day (but not where or when), he makes Philippe impersonate him in exchange for his friends\' lives.\nPhilippe not only survives the ambush, he shows mercy to his would-be killers and is cheered by the people.\nPrincess Maria Theresa (Joan Bennett), whom Louis is to wed to seal an alliance with Spain, finds this new Louis much more attractive than the real one.\nHowever, when she discovers that Louis is having an affair with Mademoiselle de la Valliere (Marion Martin), she returns to Spain.\nWhen the truth is discovered, Louis has Philippe imprisoned with an iron mask placed on his head, hoping that Philippe\'s beard will grow inside the mask and eventually suffocate him.\nPhilippe is rescued by the musketeers, who break into the sleeping Louis\'s chamber and imprison him in the mask.\nThe musketeers drag him away and lock him in the Bastille, where the jailers mistake him for Phillippe, and whip him.\nWhen Louis manages to get a message to Fouquet, he is freed, and a chase by coach ensues to stop Philippe from marrying Maria Theresa and taking Louis\' place on the throne.\nThe coach is waylaid by the musketeers, who all die heroically, but Fouquet and the real Louis XIV are also killed when the driverless coach plunges off a cliff.\nThe mortally wounded d\'Artagnan survives long enough to exclaim "God Save the King.\n" at Philippe\'s wedding, and then falls dead.\nPhilippe finally assumes the throne.
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conversations.value: The Man in the Iron Mask (1998 film): In 1662, the Kingdom of France faces bankruptcy from King Louis XIV's wars against the Dutch, which has left the country's agriculture impeded by a heavy tax burden and forced the citizens to live on rotten food.\nThough the country appears to be on the verge of a revolution, Louis continues to spend his time preparing the war and seducing countless women.\nThe three musketeers have gone their separate ways; Aramis is now an aging priest, Porthos has become a womanizing drunkard, and Athos is retired and living with his only son, Raoul, who aspires to join the musketeers.\nThe only one who has remained in the musketeers is D'Artagnan, who now serves as the captain.\nAt a festival, Louis sets his eyes on Christine Bellefort, Raoul's fiancé, and immediately plots to get rid of Raoul by sending him to the battlefront; he is killed by cannon fire.\nAware that Louis orchestrated his son's death, Athos renounces his allegiance to the king and goes into exile.\nAfter an assassination attempt on Louis by the Jesuit order is foiled by D'Artagnan, Louis instructs Aramis to hunt down and kill their leader.\nIn response, Aramis summons Porthos, Athos and D'Artagnan for a secret meeting in which he reveals that he himself is the Jesuits' leader and has a plan to depose Louis.\nAthos and Porthos agree, but D'Artagnan refuses.\nAthos brands him a traitor and threatens him with death should they ever meet again.\nMeanwhile, Louis seduces Christine, but she continues to suspect his part in Raoul's death.\nThe musketeers enter the Bastille prison and free an unnamed prisoner in an iron mask, taking him to the countryside, where Aramis reveals that he is Philippe, Louis's identical twin brother.\nAramis reveals that the night Louis was born, his mother, Queen Anne, actually gave birth to twins.\nLouis XIII, hoping to avoid dynastic warfare between his sons, sent Philippe away to live in the countryside while naming Louis XIV as his heir.\nAfter Louis XIII died, Anne revealed Philippe's existence to Louis XIV, who was too superstitious to have his brother killed but had him imprisoned in the iron mask to keep his identity secret, something Aramis carried out.\nAramis's plan is now to redeem himself and save France by replacing Louis with Philippe.\nThe musketeers begin training Philippe to act and behave like Louis, while Athos develops fatherly feelings for him.\nAt a masquerade ball, the musketeers lure Louis to his quarters and subdue him, dressing Philippe in his clothes while taking Louis to the dungeons.\nD'Artagnan, however, sees through the ruse, after Christine accuses Philippe with evidence of Louis's role in Raoul's death and is not punished.\nHe forcibly escorts Philippe to the dungeons and they confront the musketeers before they can take Louis to the Bastille.\nThey trade twins, but Philippe is captured before the musketeers escape.\nThough Louis is prepared to kill Philippe, D'Artagnan begs him not to.\nPhilippe bluffs that he is more afraid of the prison than death itself, which convinces Louis to return Philippe to the Bastille.\nChristine commits suicide out of grief.\nD'Artagnan contacts the musketeers for help in rescuing Philippe from the Bastille.\nLouis, who suspected an attempt, ambushes them at the prison.\nThough he offers D'Artagnan clemency in exchange for surrender, D'Artagnan refuses, privately revealing to his friends that Louis and Philippe are actually his bastard sons from an affair with the Queen, the true reason for his loyalty to Louis.\nThey charge one final time at Louis and his men and are fired upon; their bravery compels the soldiers to close their eyes before firing and all miss.\nLouis attempts to stab Philippe but wounds D'Artagnan fatally and he dies in his friends' arms.\nPhilippe almost strangles Louis to death but is convinced to show his brother mercy.\nD'Artagnan's top lieutenant, Andre, angered by his mentor's death, swears his men to secrecy and sides with Philippe.\nThey switch the twins' places again and Philippe orders Louis locked away, naming Athos, Porthos and Aramis as his closest advisors.\nA small funeral is held for D'Artagnan and Philippe admits to Athos that he has come to love him like a father, which Athos reciprocates.\nHe issues Louis a royal pardon and sends him to live peacefully in the countryside, and goes on to become one of France's greatest kings.
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conversations.value: The Man in the Iron Mask (1977 film): In this version, the twins' ages are swapped: Philippe is the firstborn and rightful king, who had been spirited away at birth and raised with no knowledge of his true identity in a plot by Cardinal Mazarin to manipulate Louis before his own death.\nColbert and D'Artagnan plot to replace Louis (who is an ineffective king more interested in dancing and pleasure than the welfare of France) with Philippe, and in the process bring down the corrupt finance minister Fouquet, who has embezzled from the national treasury.\nLouis is repulsed by his own wife and makes repeated advances on Louise, who is in turn repulsed by him yet falls in love with Philippe.
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conversations.value: Give me a plot for a story about Philip, Rampick, England with the genre: Literature & Fiction, British & Irish.
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conversations.value: The Man in the Iron Mask (1977 film): In this version, the twins' ages are swapped: Philippe is the firstborn and rightful king, who had been spirited away at birth and raised with no knowledge of his true identity in a plot by Cardinal Mazarin to manipulate Louis before his own death.\nColbert and D'Artagnan plot to replace Louis (who is an ineffective king more interested in dancing and pleasure than the welfare of France) with Philippe, and in the process bring down the corrupt finance minister Fouquet, who has embezzled from the national treasury.\nLouis is repulsed by his own wife and makes repeated advances on Louise, who is in turn repulsed by him yet falls in love with Philippe.
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  Indeed, the women in this novel are, with few exceptions, most often presented in an unflattering light. Like Anne of Austria, the Duchesse de Chevreuse has abandoned a child—Raoul de Bragelonne—and seems to have set political intrigue and self-interest above more traditionally female pursuits and values. Both women's bodies have been marked by signs of the physical (and moral) corruption that seemingly results from their desire for power. The Queen Mother suffers the acute pains of breast cancer, a disease whose symbolic significance is as undeniable as is its historical veracity (see chapter 4, where we learn that her pains first struck on the King's birthday). The once-alluring Duchesse has become an unattractive crone. The Queen, Marie-Thérèse, wed to Louis only a year earlier, is largely neglected by her husband and ought to be deserving of our pity, but does not generally inspire great sympathy. She is overshadowed by Louis's various mistresses, including her sister-in-law Henriette, a vivacious coquette who would eagerly rob the Queen of both the King's affections and the primacy of her position at court. Dumas shows Louise de La Vallière to be a more amiable and more sincere person than any of these women. Orphaned, afflicted with a slight limp, and lacking both wealth and pretension, she is truly in love with the King and seeks no personal advancement or gain from their relationship. Louise is, at first, subject to the scorn and ridicule of those at court who discover the secret of her liaison with Louis. Later, her fall from the King's graces will be clearly signaled in the novel. Dumas makes it seem as though this trajectory is not only a necessary concession to history and the result of Louis's constantly shifting affections, but also a form of punishment for Louise's "infidelity" to Raoul.
  The occasion also has a darker side, however, for it is during his visit to the tailor that d'Artagnan unexpectedly encounters Aramis, who—rather surprisingly in d'Artagnan's opinion—has been chosen by Fouquet to oversee the final details concerning the reception of the King at Vaux. Aramis has come in search of information about the clothes Louis will be wearing during the festivities there; he has brought with him the celebrated painter Charles Le Brun, who, Aramis claims, needs a sample of the cloth from which the King's clothes are to be made so that the portrait of Louis commissioned by Fouquet will be an exact copy of the royal guest's appearance at the time of his stay at Vaux. D'Artagnan is immediately suspicious of this explanation, but to his great frustration, he cannot yet imagine the real purpose behind Aramis's strange request. The two men spar verbally with each other, each hoping to outwit the other and penetrate his opponent's secrets. It will be only much later—too late—that d'Artagnan will finally understand the hidden purpose behind this outwardly flattering and seemingly benign reproduction/reflection—this doubling—of Louis's person. The captain of the Musketeers will show greater perspicacity when he later sees Philippe in Louis's clothes in Louis's bedroom at Vaux and recognizes that the man is not his king.
  WHILST EVERY ONE AT court was busily engaged upon his own affairs, a man mysteriously entered a house situated behind the Place de Grève.a The principal entrance of this house was in the Place Baudoyer; it was tolerably large, surrounded by gardens, enclosed in the Rue Saint-Jean by the shops of tool-makers, which protected it from prying looks, and was walled in by a triple rampart of stone, noise, and verdure, like an embalmed mummy in its triple coffin. The man we have just alluded to walked along with a firm step, although he was no longer in his early prime. His dark cloak and long sword plainly revealed one who seemed in search of adventures; and, judging from his curling moustaches, his fine and smooth skin, which could be seen beneath his sombrero, it would not have been difficult to pronounce that the gallantry of his adventures was unquestionable. In fact, hardly had the cavalier entered the house, when the clock struck eight; and ten minutes afterwards a lady, followed by a servant armed to the teeth, approached and knocked at the same door, which an old woman immediately opened for her. The lady raised her veil as she entered; though no longer beautiful or young, she was still active and of an imposing carriage. She concealed beneath a rich toilette and the most exquisite taste, an age which Ninon de l'Enclos alone could have smiled at with impunity. Hardly had she reached the vestibule, than the cavalier, whose features we have only roughly sketched, advanced towards her, holding out his hand.
  Aramis bowed over the Duchesse's hand, and pressed his lips upon it. "You must have had some trouble to find me again," he said.
  Aramis was somewhat agitated at this remark, and a light flashed from his eyes in the darkness of the room, which he could not conceal from his keen-sighted friend. "M. de Baisemeaux!" he said; "why did d'Artagnan send you to M. de Baisemeaux?"
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  The only reply the King made was to take hold of Fouquet's hand with such an expression of feeling, that it was very easy to perceive how strongly he had, until that remark, maintained his suspicions of the minister, notwithstanding the latter's intervention.'.
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conversations.value: Nothing could be more terrible indeed than the appearance of the young Prince at the moment Fouquet had surprised him; his clothes were in tatters; his shirt, open and torn to rags, was stained with sweat, and with the blood which streamed from his lacerated breast and arms. Haggard, ghastly pale, his hair in dishevelled masses, Louis XIV presented the most perfect picture of despair, hunger, and fear combined, that could possibly be united in one figure. Fouquet was so touched, so affected and disturbed by it, that he ran towards him with his arms stretched out and his eyes filled with tears. Louis held up the massive piece of wood of which he had made such a furious use.
  Louis recalled to himself by the change of situation, looked at himself, and ashamed of the disordered state of his apparel, ashamed of his conduct, and ashamed of the air of pity and protection that was shown towards him, drew back. Fouquet did not understand this movement; he did not perceive that the King's feeling of pride would never forgive him for having been a witness of such an exhibition of weakness.
  And rapidly, warmly even, he related the whole particulars of the intrigue, the details of which are already known to the reader. While the recital continued, Louis suffered the most horrible anguish of mind; and when it was finished, the magnitude of the danger he had run struck him far more than the importance of the secret relative to his twin brother.
  The only reply the King made was to take hold of Fouquet's hand with such an expression of feeling, that it was very easy to perceive how strongly he had, until that remark, maintained his suspicions of the minister, notwithstanding the latter's intervention.
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conversations.value: Another name for the prince de Condé, the King's cousin; the historic person referred to here is Louis II de Bourbon (1621-1686), fourth prince of Condé, also known as the Duc d'Enghien. He participated in the Fronde des Princes after having put down the Fronde parlementaire. Raoul de Bragelonne served in his armies. There may be some confusion in these passages as François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort (1616-1669), is himself a prince descended from Gabrielle d'Estrées (1573-1599), mistress of Henri IV (1553-1610).
  About 76.5 feet; the toise is a measure of length (6.39 feet) used before France adopted the metric system.
  Jean d'Estrées (1624-1707), maréchal de France and a cousin of François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort (1616-1669), was vice-admiral of the flotilla of ships sent to North Africa.
  The confederation of Protestant provinces, formed on January 23, 1579, organized themselves under the Union of Utrecht in direct response to the threat from the Catholic provinces of what is today Belgium. Thus the Netherlands was formed during the religious wars pitting Protestants against Catholics.
  Friesland, a province in northern Holland that includes several West Frisian Islands on the North Sea.
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conversations.value: Friesland, a province in northern Holland that includes several West Frisian Islands on the North Sea.. Thus the Netherlands was formed during the religious wars pitting Protestants against Catholics.
  The confederation of Protestant provinces, formed on January 23, 1579, organized themselves under the Union of Utrecht in direct response to the threat from the Catholic provinces of what is today Belgium.
  Jean d'Estrées (1624-1707), maréchal de France and a cousin of François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort (1616-1669), was vice-admiral of the flotilla of ships sent to North Africa.39 feet) used before France adopted the metric system.5 feet; the toise is a measure of length (6.
  About 76. There may be some confusion in these passages as François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort (1616-1669), is himself a prince descended from Gabrielle d'Estrées (1573-1599), mistress of Henri IV (1553-1610). Raoul de Bragelonne served in his armies. He participated in the Fronde des Princes after having put down the Fronde parlementaire.Another name for the prince de Condé, the King's cousin; the historic person referred to here is Louis II de Bourbon (1621-1686), fourth prince of Condé, also known as the Duc d'Enghien