Clameur de Haro
The Channel Islands are the only place where this Norman custom of crying for justice still survives.
"Haro! Haro! Haro! a l’aide, mon prince, on me fait tort" are not words heard often in Jersey.
But they could be. And if they were, they could have serious implications for the person they were directed at – that is, once they have figured out what their apparently crazed neighbour is doing sat there on their knees, yelling, in French, for a prince.
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