Seldon

Family: prisoners · Role: prisoner · First appears: Chapter 6

Life events

Aramis reveals that Seldon has been imprisoned for ten years over two Latin verses.(Chapter6 · 📍 Saint-Mande)
- With: Aramis Fouquet
- “A poor devil--a youth, a lad who has been Bastiled these ten years, for two Latin verses he made against the Jesuits.”
Fouquet writes M. de Lyonne requesting Seldon’s release from the Bastille.(Chapter6 · 📍 Saint-Mande)
- With: Fouquet M. de Lyonne
- “And Fouquet, taking a pen, wrote a few rapid lines to his colleague Lyonne.”
Fouquet orders Seldon’s release and sends ten thousand livres to his impoverished mother.(Chapter6 · 📍 Saint-Mande)
- With: Fouquet
- “‘Stay,’ he said; ‘set the son at liberty, and give this to the mother; but, above all, do not tell her--’”
Aramis orders Baisemeaux to release Seldon under the presented order.(Chapter17 · 📍 Bastile)
- With: Aramis Baisemeaux
- “And you will hand over this Seldon to me, whose liberation is authorized by this order.”

with Fouquet (Fouquet orders that Seldon be set free.) “‘Stay,’ he said; ‘set the son at liberty, and give this to the mother; but, above all, do not tell her--’”
with Aramis (Aramis explains that he wants to release a prisoner, subsequently identified as Seldon.) “On the contrary--to let somebody out.”

with Philippe (The chapter presents Seldon and Marchiali as conflicting names for the prisoner in the order.) “‘Oh! you mean to say Marchiali?’ said Aramis.”

with Aramis (Aramis orders Baisemeaux to release Seldon into his custody.) “And you will hand over this Seldon to me, whose liberation is authorized by this order. Do you understand?”
captor: Baisemeaux “And you will hand over this Seldon to me, whose liberation is authorized by this order. Do you understand?”

with Philippe (interaction) “These complications of Seldon and Marchiali--the complications first of setting at liberty and then imprisoning again, the complications arising from the strong likeness in question--had at last found a very proper denouement.”
with Philippe (The passage states that Seldon and Marchiali are connected by a strong likeness and related prison complications.) “These complications of Seldon and Marchiali--the complications first of setting at liberty and then imprisoning again, the complications arising from the strong likeness in question--had at last found a very proper denouement.”

with Baisemeaux (Baisemeaux possesses and presents the order releasing Seldon.) “Baisemeaux showed him the order to release Seldon.”

Extracted from the original text of The Man in the Iron Mask. Made with Rho MD.