taiaut

Updated: July 16, 2025

"Who is it, then?" said Porthos. "Look!" Porthos applied his eye to the slit, and saw at the summit of a hillock a dozen horsemen urging on their horses in the track of the dogs, shouting, "Taiaut! taiaut!" "The guards!" said he. "Yes, my friend, the king's guards." "The king's guards! do you say, monseigneur?" cried the Bretons, growing pale in turn.

Alexandre Dumas - The Man in the Iron Mask