d'avon

Updated: June 15, 2025

He was an excellent shot, and he went and built himself a platform behind the wall of the Parquet d'Avon, by which he knew the King's char a banes must pass. When the carriage went by, at a slow trot, ten paces from his ambush, he rested his rifle on the wall, and fired.

Prince De Joinville - Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville