Vanished halls and cathedrals of France . ot picture it here, in this chapter, to my greatregret. Perhaps the greatest, or at any rate the most indefens-ible piece of vandalism perpetrated by the retiring armiesof the invader, was the total annihilation of the greatcastle of Coucy-le-Chateau in March of this year. Coucycastle, legend says, was built upon the site given to by Clovis, in the fulfillment of a condition that theformer should walk around it while the King enjoyed hisnoonday siesta. Afterwards it was part of the propertyof the Chapter of Rheims for upwards of two hundredyear
Vanished halls and cathedrals of France . ot picture it here, in this chapter, to my greatregret. Perhaps the greatest, or at any rate the most indefens-ible piece of vandalism perpetrated by the retiring armiesof the invader, was the total annihilation of the greatcastle of Coucy-le-Chateau in March of this year. Coucycastle, legend says, was built upon the site given to by Clovis, in the fulfillment of a condition that theformer should walk around it while the King enjoyed hisnoonday siesta. Afterwards it was part of the propertyof the Chapter of Rheims for upwards of two hundredyears. In the year nine hundred and twenty-nine KingCharles the Simple was imprisoned in its donjon by Her-bert, Count of Vermandois. Enguerrand I, founder ofthe house of Coucy, received the castle in fief from theArchbishop of Rheims, and from it departed with hisknights in quest of the Holy Grail and was distinguishedin the Crusades. His descendant, Enguerrand III, whowas surnamed the Great, rebuilt the castle, and when he 238 W ^???. f, I 4 rir^ ,
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