Castles and chateaux of old Burgundy and the border provinces (1909)
Mansfield, Milburg Francisco, 1871- · Boston, L. C. Page & company · leaf 194
Gothic window frames. Traditionhas it that these towers were originally muchmore lofty, but at the period when barons,whether rightly or wrongly, held their swayover their peers and anyone else who might bearound, if the local seigneur was beaten at atourney, the penalty he paid was to cut the… … Chateau de Sully In the Cote dOr 151 Originally these towers of the ChateaudEpinac were of such an overwhelming heightthat they could be seen a hundred leaguesaround — this is local tradition again, and thistime it is probably exaggeration. Three hun-dred miles is a long birds-eye view…
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