The architecture of Provence and the Riviera (1888)
MacGibbon, David, d.1902 · Edinburgh, D. Douglas · leaf 464
tenth centuryby the same Grimoaldor Grimaldi who dis-lodged the Moors fromthe Grand Fraxinet,and whose successorsbecame the Princes ofMonaco. In the eleventhcentury the placeseems to have beenabandoned, and in1162 the EmperorFrederick I. presentedit to the Republic ofGenoa, who took pos-session,… … FIG. 257. HOUSES AT LA TURBIE. 434 MEDIAEVAL PERIOD. session of the Grimaldi, and sometimes became the shelterof bands of pirates who scoured the Mediterranean. TheGrimaldi sided with the French in the ItaHan wars of CharlesVIII. and Louis XII., and through the influence of the latterbecame the…
Architecture -- France Provence · Architecture -- France Riviera
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