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Updated: June 8, 2025
Nature is ever young and this was the very scene and the very hour described in Scott's immortal poem, and as Claudia gazed she murmured the lines: "Day set on Norham's castled steep, And Tweed's fair river, broad and deep, And Cheviot's mountains lone; The battled towers, the donjon keep, The flanking walls that round it sweep, In yellow luster shone,"
The blood-red flag on this donjon was, at the era engaging us, the disenchanter of the Greeks; insomuch that in passing the Sweet Waters of Asia they hugged the opposite shore of the Bosphorus, crossing themselves and muttering prayers often of irreligious compound. A stork has a nest on the donjon now.
Finally, far away to the east, Vincennes, and its seven quadrangular towers to the south, Bicetre and its pointed turrets; to the north, Saint-Denis and its spire; to the west, Saint Cloud and its donjon keep. Such was the Paris which the ravens, who lived in 1482, beheld from the summits of the towers of Notre-Dame.
We were a little puzzled by Joanne's account of Verneuil, in which he said that the castle had been completely demolished, but that the donjon existed still. It seems that at Verneuil, as at Argentan, castle and donjon are distinguished; but at Verneuil castle and donjon are not, as at Argentan, separate buildings joined only by a long wall; they stand close together and formed part of one work.
Perhaps not the donjon itself, but the high ground about it is said to be seen from the tower of Saint German at Argentan. But we at least could not see it from Exmes. The other object in the little town of Exmes, now hardly more than a village, is the church. This stands on the general mass of high ground from which the castle hill juts out.
He then led me on the road to the Donjon Inn, which we could see on the highway, by the side of a small clump of trees. The Donjon Inn was of no imposing appearance; but I like these buildings with their rafters blackened with age and the smoke of their hearths these inns of the coaching-days, crumbling erections that will soon exist in the memory only.
As if a reptile had crossed his path, Wilfrey Lawson turned about and passed out without another word. He returned to the castle and ascended the Donjon tower. "Tell me how you became possessed of the warrant," he said. "Tell me, I beg of you, for my soul's sake as well as for your life's sake." Ralph shook his head. "It is not even yet too late. I shall take horse instantly for Newcastle."
Colonel Menard's substantial slave cabins of logs and stone were in sight, and up the bluff near the house was a sort of donjon of stone, having only one door letting into its base. "That's where Colonel Menard puts his bad Indians," said Peggy Morrison, following Maria's glance. "It is simply a little fortress for times of danger," said Mademoiselle Saucier, laughing.
I am Monsieur du Poins, an officer in the guards, on duty at the donjon of Vincennes." Mazarin, perceiving by the paleness and agitation of the messenger that he had something of importance to say, made a sign that D'Artagnan and Porthos should give place. D'Artagnan and Porthos withdrew to a corner of the cabinet. "Speak, monsieur, speak at once!" said Mazarin "What is the matter?"
They belong to the bygone days, they are linked with history. They make us think of the Road, of those days when highwaymen rode. I saw at once that the Donjon Inn was at least two centuries old perhaps older.
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