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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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climatically and by tiesof family, with many of its neighbouring polit-ical divisions. Almost to the He de Francethis extended on the north; to the east, theFranche Comte was but a dismemberment;whilst the Nivernais and the Bourbonnais tothe west, through the lands and influence oftheir seigneurs, encroached more or less onBurgundy or vice versa if one chooses to thinkof it in that way. To the southeast Dombes,Bresse and Bugey, all closely allied with oneanother, bridged the leagues which separatedBurgundy from Savoy, and, still farther on,Dauphiny. The influence of the Burgundian spirit was,however, over all. The neighbouring states, thenobility and the people alike, envied and emu-lated, as far as they were able, the luxuriouslife of the Burgundian seigneurs later. If atone time or another they were actually enemies,they sooner, in many instances at least, alliedthemselves as friends or partisans, and themanner of life of the Burgundians of the mid-dle ages became their own. ^^1 f A
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The Eealm of the Burgundians 3 Not in the royal domain of France itself, notin luxurious Touraine, was there more love ofsplendour and the gorgeous trappings of theceremonial of the middle ages than in Bur-gundy. It has ever been a land of prosperityand plenty, to which, in these late days, mustbe added peace, for there is no region in allFrance of to-day where there is more content-ment and comfort than in the wealthy and opu-lent Departments of the Cote dOr and theSaone and Loire which, since the Eevolution,have been carved out of the very heart of oldBurgundy. The French themselves are not commonlythought to be great travellers, but they love le voyage nevertheless, and they are asjustifiably proud of their antiquities and theirhistorical monuments as any other race onearth. That they love their patrie, and all thatpertains to it, with a devotion seemingly inex-plicable to a people who go in only for spreadeaglism, goes without saying. Quil est doux de courir le monde !ATi ! quil e

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