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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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t, but the city gates, piercing thefortification walls, were built also by Vaubanbetween 1668-1711, and are by no means asancient as they look. The Palais Granvelle, of the sixteenth cen-tury, has a fine dignified monumental aspectwholly impressive regardless of its lack ofmagnitude and the absence of a strict regardfor the architectural orders. Liberties havebeen taken here and there with its outlineswhich place it beyond the pale of a thoroughlyconsistent structure, but for all that it undeni-ably pleases the eye, and more. And what elsehas one a right to demand unless he is apedant? In general the civic and domesticarchitecture of the Franche Comte are of asobriety which gives them a distinction all theirown; the opposite is true of the churches, tak-ing that at Pont-a-Mousson as a concrete ex-ample. The street fagade of the Palais Granvelle isundeniably fine, with a dignity born of simplic-ity. Its interior fa§ade, that giving on thecourtyard, is freer in treatment, but still not
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Palais Granvelle, Besancon 1 The Franche Comte 193 violent, and its colonnaded cloister forms aquiet retreat in strong contrast with the bustleand noise which push by the portal scarcetwenty feet away. The Palais Granvelle actually serves to-daythe purpose of headquarters of Besan§onsSociete Savante. Nicolas Perrenot, Seigneur de Granvelle, itsbuilder (1533-1540) was the chancellor ofCharles Quint, and brother of the Cardinal deGranvelle, minister of Charles Quint and Phi-lippe II. He was descended from a noble Bur-gundian family, not from a blacksmith as hasfaultily been given by more than one historian. Charles Quint, in writing to his son, after thedeath of his chancellor — in his palace atBesanQon, said: My son, I am extremelytouched by the death of Granvelle. In him youand I have lost a firm staff upon which to lean. The centre of the admirable town house ofthe sixteenth century is occupied by a vastcourtyard surrounded by a series of Doric col-umns in marble, supporting a ran

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