The architecture of Provence and the Riviera (1888)
Macgibbon, David · Edinburgh, Douglas · leaf 368
^ The fort, which is builton the precipitous rock on the north side of the island,facing the Croisette point at the eastern extremity ofthe bay of Cannes, was erected by Richelieu. Scarcelyfinished, it was attacked and taken by the Spaniards in1635, who enlarged it, and after being recovered by… … scHk. FIG. 175. CASTLE OF STE .MAKCLEKITE. from the Croisette is picturesque and pleasing (Fig. 175) ;but the only point worth inspecting close at hand is theprison in which the man with the iron mask was con-fined by Louis XIV. for seventeen years. The extremethickness of the walls (above 12…
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