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A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)

Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 313

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dence of the owner of considerablelanded property. Thus, the houses of ownera520 CHATEAU of vineyards in the wine-growing regions ofFrance give names to tlie superior wines grownin the vineyards of tlie jiroprietor, as in tlie namesCliateau Latite, Chateau Yqiiem, etc. It isnotable that this use of… … CHATEAU specimens may be mentioned; such as thechateau of Josselyn in Brittany, as an instanceof the large buildings of the sixteenth century ;the cluiteau of Bussy-Rabutin, as a building ofthe seventeenth centuiy ; and the Chateau ofMaisons-sur-Seine, as an instance of a quitemodern building. It…

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