Castles and chateaux of old Burgundy and the border provinces (1909)
Mansfield, Milburg Francisco, 1871- [from old catalog] · Boston, L. C. Page & company · leaf 379
d on eachlanding by a single window. From this onejudges that the tower must have been intendedas a defence or last refuge for the dwellers inthe chateau in case they were attacked by ban-dits or other evil doers. On arriving at thefinal floor, the walls are pierced with ten win-dows. A carven… … The boundarybetween D a u -phiny and Pro-vence was by nomeans vague; it■was a well de-fined territoriallimit, but in theold days, as withthose of the pres-ent, the climaticand topographic limits between the two regionswere not so readily defined. The Rhone, themightiest of French rivers when…
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