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Quotation from The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas

“He was my guest, my sovereign.”

Alexandre Dumas (spoken by Fouquet)

The Man in the Iron Mask, Chapter XXI, The King's Friend, trans. Anonymous translation

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Fouquet rejects Aramis's plea that the king meant to ruin him and insists that the substitution dishonors his house.

Citation: "He was my guest, my sovereign." — Alexandre Dumas, The Man in the Iron Mask, Chapter XXI, The King's Friend, trans. Anonymous translation. (id the-man-in-the-iron-mask-q3)

Portrait: Alexander Dumas père (1802-1870), Nadar, Public domain.

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