The architecture of Provence and the Riviera (1888)
MacGibbon, David, d.1902 · Edinburgh, D. Douglas · leaf 374
Cistertian Monks, who cultivate the soil andsuperintend an orphanage. The adjoining island of Ste Marguerite has butlittle interest architecturally. 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… … FIG. 175. CASTLE OK STE MARGUERITE. 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 iion mask was con-fined by Louis XIV. for seventeen years. The extremethickness of the walls (above 12 feet), the…
Architecture -- France Provence · Architecture -- France Riviera
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