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Title: Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 109 June to November 1904
Year: 1904 (1900s)
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Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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r of a year. In Richards own time, and in the time of John his successo, Chateau Gaillard was not the name by which the castle was known officially. In the Acts of those kings it is styled le nouveau chateau de la roche, le beau chateau de laroche, or simply la roche d'Andeli. Not until the year 1261, when Saint Louis dated an Act in castro nostro gaillard,is there a known record of the serious use of Richards gay soubriquet. But the contemporary chroniclers—Guillaume leBreton, Gautier de Gisebourne, and the rest—all reflected the popular usage by writing Chateau Gaillard from the very start. I am very much obliged to them. Had they not fixed in their records Richards happy christening of his beautiful saucy daughter the delightful name very well might have been lost. As was only natural, Philip was in a proper rage over the building of this impudently defiant castle. Being himself a king accustomed to carry through his undertakings with a lively energy, and being touched with the braggart customs
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THE CASTLE FROM THE TOWN Vol. CIX.—No. 651.—43 344 HARPERS MONTHLY MAGAZINE. of his times, he said his say about it shortly. I would take it, he declared, were its walls of iron! To which Richard replied tersely: I would hold it were its walls of butter. Philip, in a way, won out on his boast. He did take Chateau Gaillard —but, discreetly, he did not begin his famous siege of it until the body of its builder, in scattered sections, was safely underground. Only a few months after his gaillard castle was finished, while trying to commit a burglary, Richard Coeur de Lion was shot by a policeman—and so came to an appropriate end. This is a critically and etymologically accurate statement of fact. Britton, who was of Richards time,defines a burgesour as one who feloniously, in time of peace, breaks into churches or other buildings, or through the walls or gates of our cities or towns; a policeman, broadly, is a civic guard: and it was while feloniously trying in time of peace to break into a t

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