Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains;

They crowned him long ago

On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds,

With a diadem of snow.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: Manfred. Act i. Sc. 1.

A cutpurse of the empire and the rule,

That from a shelf the precious diadem stole,

And put it in his pocket!

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 4.