This transfer took place in consequence of the appointment of the governor of the former place to the government of the latter.

It was for fear the prisoner should profit by the inexperience of a new governor that he was sent with the Governor of Pignerol to the Bastille.
Such was, in fact, the truth about the man on whom people have been pleased to fix an iron mask.

And thus was it related in writing, and published by M .-- --- twenty years ago.

He had searched the archives of the Foreign Office, and laid the real story before the public; but the public, prepossessed in favour of a marvellous version, would not acknowledge the authenticity of his account.

Every man relied upon the authority of Voltaire; and it was believed that a natural or a twin brother of Louis XIV.