Hunnewell, James Frothingham, 1832-1910 · Boston : Houghton, Mifflin and Company · leaf 164
opes on every side but one, andthere, by a deep, wide moat, high walls, and an enormousdonjon, that was made as if for giants. It is circular, andalmost 63 yards high. Its diameter is 108 feet, and its walls,in some parts, are 34 feet thick. Around the donjon stoodfour towers of more than half its… … VUE RESTAUREE EXTERIEURE DD CHATEAU DE COUCY CHATEAU DE COUCY. 117 citadel inside the town of Carcassonne. It kept watch and wardfor its great lords, and seemingly for feudalism itself, as if, too,for all time. Throughout the lives of twenty generations it haslooked on Frenchmen and their lands ;…
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