ten o'clock
The Whole Truth now first exhibited . One hundred copies printed by myself for the instruction of the Court . At nine o'clock on the morning of that day , the author , a very young man , well-dressed , whose name has remained unknown , began to leave his book on the principal persons at court . At ten o'clock , when he had fulfilled four of these errands , he was arrested by a captain in the guards , who took him to the king 's closet and forthwith set off in search of the four copies distributed . When the hundred copies were got together , counted , carefully looked through and verified , the king himself threw them into the fire and burnt them , all but one , which he kept for his own purposes . Then he ordered the captain of the guards to take the author of the book to M. de Saint-Mars , who confined his prisoner first at Pignerol and then in the fortress of the Ile Sainte-Marguerite . This man was obviously no other than the famous Man with the Iron Mask .