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Once within that dreaded fortress, the terrible oubliettes of which are below the surface of the Lake Ladoga, my identity would be lost and I should be quickly forgotten. From Schlüsselburg no prisoner ever returned! Would any of the conspiring trio, whose tool I had been, raise a finger to save me?
But first barricade the first door well; then we will follow yonder cavalier." The two friends set to work and crowded the space before the door with all the furniture in the room, as not only to make the passage impassable, but so to block the door that by no means could it open inward. "There!" said D'Artagnan, "we can't be overtaken. Come! forward!" The Oubliettes of Cardinal Mazarin.
The author of this book has seen, with his own eyes, eight leagues distant from Brussels, there are relics of the Middle Ages there which are attainable for everybody, at the Abbey of Villers, the hole of the oubliettes, in the middle of the field which was formerly the courtyard of the cloister, and on the banks of the Thil, four stone dungeons, half under ground, half under the water.
He was therefore arrested, sent to the Temple, and has never since been heard of; so that his female friends are still in the cruel uncertainty whether he has died on the rack, been buried alive in the oubliettes, or is wandering an exile in the wilds of Cayenne.
"Are they already coming to fetch us?" said Cinq-Mars. "Bah! bah!" answered Grandchamp, "do not make yourself uneasy; it is the Tour des Oubliettes. I have prowled round the fort for two months, and I have seen men fall from there into the water at least once a week. Let us think of our affair. I see a light down there."
All along the "Valley of the Kings" little insignificant doors which to the initiated reveal the "Sign of the Shadow," inscribed on their lintels lead to other subterranean places, just as sumptuous and perfidiously profound, with their snares, their hidden wells, their oubliettes and the bewildering multiplicity of their mural figures.
This practice of forming oubliettes in the shell of its prison does not endanger the grub, as they are immediately closed, and hermetically sealed by the base of the jet, which is compressed as by a stroke of a trowel. The stopper is so quickly put in place that the contents remain moist in spite of the frequent breaches made in the shell of the "pear."
The scandal, which spread throughout the kingdom, placed him in a very unenviable position. The marquis would probably have passed the rest of his life in one of the oubliettes of the Bastile had he not escaped from France. Madame de Montespan, in her wonderfully frank Memoirs, records all these facts without any apparent consciousness of the infamy to which they consign her memory.
Her little grandson lighted a candle and showed us the oubliettes, which are subterranean dungeons, one above the other, and barred by mighty doors of wood and iron.
This latter was blasted out about thirty years ago. Upon following the direction of the great crevices, we reach a small chamber, wherein are found the Oubliettes of Gargas a vertical well 65 feet feet in depth. Such is the general configuration of the grotto. In 1865 Dr. Garrigou and Mr. De Chastaignier visited the grotto, and were the first to make excavations therein.
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