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Title: Castles and chateaux of old Burgundy and the border provinces
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Mansfield, Milburg Francisco, 1871- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Castles
Publisher: Boston, L. C. Page & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ter all nothingmore than a completion of the admirablyplanned reconstruction of the fifteenth century;the restoration, or rebuilding, of to-day beingbut the following out of the plans of the orig-inal architect, a procedure which has seldombeen attempted or accomplished elsewhere. Itwas done with the sixteenth century fountainof the Medicis in the Luxembourg Gardens(whose sculptures according to the original de-signs were only completed in 1839), but this isperhaps the only instance of a great mediaevalchateau being thus carried to completion. Therestorations of Carcassonne, Saint-Michel andPierrefonds are in quite another category. The Chateau La Rochepot was a develop-ment of the ancient Chastel-Rocca, which stoodon the same site in the twelfth century, andwhich drew its name originally from its situa-tion. Elpinac, just to the west of La Rochepot, is inthe heart of a veritable black country ; notthe black country of the Midlands in Eng-land, but a more picturesque region, where the
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Chateau de La Rochepot In the Cote dOr 149 soot and grime of coal and its products mingleby turns with the brilliancy of foliage greenand gold. In addition to drawing its fame fromthe mines roundabout, Epinac owes not a littleof its distinction to its chateau, and a neigh-bouring Chateau de Sully which dates from thesixteenth century. The Chateau de Sully is a magnificent edificebuilt in 1567 for the Marechal de Saulx-Tavannes, and is to-day classed by the Frenchgovernment as a monument historique. Itwas built from the plans of Ribbonnier, a cele-brated architect of Langres in the sixteenthcentury, and terminated only in the reign ofHenri IV. It is an excellent type of the FrenchRenaissance of the latter half of the sixteenthcentury. In form it is a vast rectangle withsquare pavilions, or towers, at each angle setdiagonally. Though varied, its architecture issober to a degree, particularly with respect tothe res-de-chaussee. The inner court of this admirable chateau issurrounded by an

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