Maugis, ye sorcerer : from ye ancient French : a wonderful tale from ye…
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"Maugis, ye sorcerer : from ye ancient French : a wonderful tale from ye…." by Lord Gilhooley is a chivalric adventure novel written in the late 19th century. Framed as a found manuscript unearthed in the old city of Mouzon, it retells the Charlemagne-cycle legend of Maugis and the four sons of Aymon—combining battles, betrayal, and courtly love with “sorcery” rationalized as learned occult science. The tale follows the towering warrior-mage Maugis,
his loyal brothers, the magnanimous yet wrathful Charlemagne, the treacherous Ganelon, and Yolande, whose secret bond with Maugis threads through the conflict. The opening of the novel sets a modern frame: a narrator in Mouzon meets a haunted hermit, Charles Voudran, who claims to have found and burned ancient manuscripts about Maugis, yet hands over his own synopsis under oath to publish it outside France; he argues Maugis’s wonders sprang from Eastern occult training, not demons. The narrative then shifts to Charlemagne’s court: after a war triumph, the emperor sends his son Lothaire to summon the defiant Duke d’Aigremont, who kills the prince, prompting war, a royal victory, and then an astonishing imperial pardon—later undercut by Ganelon’s treacherous slaying of d’Aigremont. At court, Maugis demands justice, is rebuked, and—goaded during a chess match—kills Prince Berthelot; he escapes through Yolande’s chamber, and with his brothers raises the rock-fast Château Montfort on the Meuse. Charlemagne besieges it; Maugis burns the royal camp, withstands months of pressure, foils a midnight betrayal, then evacuates under fire, fights a rearguard pursuit, and escapes across a flood before the emperor razes Montfort—the opening closing as the brothers confront their father’s forces demanding their surrender. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Gilhooley, Lord, 1850-1913 |
|---|---|
| Title | Maugis, ye sorcerer : from ye ancient French : a wonderful tale from ye writings of ye mad savant of ye Maison Maugis in ye olde citie of Mouzon, France |
| Original Publication | London: F. Tennyson Neely, 1898. |
| Credits | Aaron Adrignola, Robert Tonsing, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Fantasy fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 76929 |
| Release Date | Sep 25, 2025 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 3031 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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