The One True King of France has arisen, or something

The French version of Excaliber has been destoned. I hope kinging pays good because the thing is probably too hot to fence.

The French: guillotine sharpening noises :wink:

The Bourbons never claimed it??

Or the far right National Rally party? (Making it an épée-Pen)

Nice.

never mind.

This whole story needs to be read with some very heavy doses of scepticism. The stolen sword was only nineteenth-century, replacing an earlier sword stolen during the French Revolution. And neither probably had anything to do with Roland.

There is a good discussion of its history, started before the recent theft, here.

Roland’s Durendal sword-in-the-stone at Rocamadour : r/badhistory (reddit.com)

Well, yeah, everyone knows that the real Durandel is being wielded by a Knight of the Cross (currently Sanya), and passed down by the angels to worthy successors. It wouldn’t do anyone any good stuck in some rock somewhere.