Gilhooley, Lord 1850-1913 creator text utu 2025 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "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.) Release date is 2025-09-25 Aaron Adrignola, Robert Tonsing, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) Originally published: London: F. Tennyson Neely, 1898 Fantasy fiction PS London: F. Tennyson Neely, 1898 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hn1kpv https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76929 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hn1kpv https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76929 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134800.0 76929