froisart

Updated: May 20, 2025

A lady of our acquaintance remembers her feeling of awe when, as a school-girl, she was shown a hiding-place in an old mansion near Baden-Baden a huge piece of stone masonry swinging aside upon a pivot and revealing a gloomy kind of dungeon behind. The old French châteaux, according to Froisart, were rarely without secret means of escape.

Allan Fea - Secret Chambers and Hiding Places: Historic, Romantic, & Legendary Stories & Traditions About: Hiding-Holes, Secret Chambers, Etc.

My daughter, Mademoiselle Moissart, she marry von Monsieur Voissart, and de name is bot ver respectaable name." "Moissart?" I exclaimed, "and Voissart! Why, what is it you mean?" "Vat I mean? I mean Moissart and Voissart; and for de matter of dat, I mean Croissart and Froisart, too, if I only tink proper to mean it.

Edgar Allan Poe - The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 3