Castles and chateaux of old Burgundy and the border provinces (1909)
Mansfield, Milburg Francisco, 1871- [from old catalog] · Boston, L. C. Page & company · leaf 100
back of the town,stands a colossal statue of Vercingetorix, inmemory of a resistance which he here madeagainst the usually redoubtable Caesar. Six kilometres away there is one of the mostromantically historic of all the minor chateauxof France and one not to be omitted from any-bodys chateaux tour… … Montbard and Bussy-Rabutin 69 a part of the original fabric, was the conceitof the Comte de Bussy-Eabutin, a cousin ofMadame de Sevigne in the seventeenth century.It gives one the impression of being an exactreplica of a seigneurial domain of its time. The main fabric is a vast square edifice…
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