The Man in the Iron Mask Chapter XXXIX - How the King, Louis XIV, played his little part

In which Monsieur Fouquet arrives under a pall of unease, bearing a secret warning he hastily destroys, and is summoned to the king’s presence where a delicate and tense dialogue unfolds between sovereign and subject. The king’s measured civility thinly veils a grave design, as D’Artagnan receives clandestine orders to shadow Fouquet closely, preparing for a sudden and carefully wrought arrest.