One popular theory, that he was an older brother of Louis XIV, became the basis for Alexander Dumas' classic tale The Man in the Iron Mask.

Dumas. You boys'll like that one. It's about a prison break.

Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass.

But in a private library, you can at any moment converse with Socrates or Shakespeare or Carlyle or Dumas or Dickens.

SPOILER: There are several similarities to the Alexandre Dumas père novel, "The Count of Monte Cristo" (which is also mentioned during the film).