Castles and chateaux of old Burgundy and the border provinces (1909)
Mansfield, Milburg Francisco, 1871- · Boston, L. C. Page & company · leaf 78
t least matter-of-fact and uns^Tni^athetic. 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 was…
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