Derivation of "Trianon"

Your correspondent Aredjid Kooes is certainly right: Trianon was the *name of a village*, which formerly stood on the site of these two chateaux. (See Vatout, and all the histories of Versailles.) I would take this occasion of suggesting, that it is essential to the value of your work that your correspondents should be careful not to *lead* us astray by mere *guesses*. What authority has your correspondent J. K. R. W. (Vol. ii., p. 13.) for asserting that "*trianon* is a word meaning a *pavilion*?" And if, as I believe, he has not the slightest, I appeal to him whether it is fair to the public…