Castles and chateaux of old Burgundy and the border provinces (1909)
Mansfield, Milburg Francisco, 1871- [from old catalog] · Boston, L. C. Page & company · leaf 334
tecturaldecoration and perpetuates the mythical char-acter of a local legend. One is glad to knowthat it is not an emblem personal to the familyof the present owner. Some kilometres to the south is the TourSans Venin, one of the ancient wonders ofDauphiny, though it is little more than a… … 256 Castles and Chateaux of Old Burgundy or earth, warranted to chase away reptiles andvermin. Imagination, no doubt, played its part,but one can readily enough accept the proper-ties as desirable ones for a building materialto possess. Saint Donat, still further down the valley,has hardly a memory…
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