If, a rocky island in the Gulf of Marseilles, crowned by a castle, the Château d'If, which was built by Francis I. of France, and subsequently used as a state-prison. Here were confined, amongst others, Mirabeau and the Duke of Orleans (Philip Égalité), not to mention 'Monte Cristo.'
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 6: Humber to Malta, p. 70
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