Now, my son, keep heedful watch over this tower, the trouble caused me by which has made me almost an old man, and through whose craft and deceitful wickedness I have never known thorough peace and quiet.

Advice to his son, Louis-le-Gros, as quoted by Suger, Vita Ludovici Grossi, ch. 3, in Scriptores Rerum Francicarum, vol. 12, p. 16. Reported in Jules Michelet, History of France, tr. G. H. Smith, vol. 1 (New York, 1882), p. 221, footnote. The Baron de Montlhéry had given his daughter in marriage to one of the king's sons, with his castle as her dowry—"which was, in fact, to give him a clear road between Paris and Orleans."