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Castles and chateaux of old Burgundy and the border provinces (1909)

Mansfield, Milburg Francisco, 1871- [from old catalog] · Boston, L. C. Page & company · leaf 76

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, at least matter-of-fact and unsympathetic. In spite of this its historical recollections aremany and varied, and there are fragmentsgalore of its once proud architectural glorieswhich bespeak their prime importance, and alsothat the vandal hand of so-called progress andimprovement has fallen… … ^ Semur-en-Auxois, Epoisses, Bourbilly 51 ettes of any hill-top town in France. Like Con-stantine in North Africa it is walled and bat-tlemented by a series of natural defences in theform of ravines or gorges so profound that cer-tainly no ordinary invading force could haveentered the city. Semur…

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