Miltoun, Francis · Boston, L. C. Page & company · leaf 400
e chateauand those which may properly be called royal. In the moyen-age Maintenon was a verita-ble chateau-fort, forming a quadrilateral edificeflanked by round towers at three of its angles,and at the fourth by a great square mass of adonjon, all of which was united by a vast ex-panse of solidly… … Chateau de Maintenon Maintenon 30i domain towards 1490 and immediately planneda new scheme of being for the old fortress which,according to a more esthetic conception, wouldthus be brought into the class of a luxuriousresidential chateau. He destroyed the courtineswhich attached the great donjon to…
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