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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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Frankly it is an impor-
tation from alien soil, a transplantation from
the Low Countries, where the style was first
developed during the Spanish occupation in
Flanders.
Save for certain modifications in 1646, 1734
and 1784 this portion of the edifice remains
much as it was left by the passing of the good
old times when knights, and monks as well, were
bold. The Grande Salle, where the Chancelier
Rollin first instituted the annual wine sale
which still holds forth today, and the entrance
portal were again restored in 1879, but other-
wise the aspect is of the time of the birth of the
structure.
The Hospice de Beaune is properly enough
to be classed among the palaces and chateaux
of Burgundy, for its civic functions were many,
besides which it was the princely residence of
the chancellor of the Burgundian Parliament.
The old Collège de Beaune, now disappeared,
or transformed out of all semblance to its
former self, was a one-time residence of the
Ducs de Bourgogne, and in addition the first
seat of the Burgundian Parliament when its
sittings were known as the Jours Generaux.
A near neighbour of Beaune is Corton.
Text Appearing After Image:
Hospice de Beaune

In the Côte d'Or 145

C'est le Chambertin de la Côte de Beaune,
said Monillefert, writing of its wine. Another
neighbouring vineyard is that which surrounds
the little village of Pernand. Its cru, called
Charlemagne, has considerably more than a
local reputation. Savigny-sous-Beaune is an-
other place-name which means little unless it
be on a wine-card. The little town is set about
with sumptuous hourgeoise houses, and a local
chateau bears the following inscription over its
portal, " Les vins de Savigny sont nourrisants,
theologiques et morbifuges." They have been
drunk by countless bon vivants through the
ages, and the Ducs de Bourgogne were ever
their greatest partisans. Mention of them ap-
pears frequently in the accounts written of
public and private fêtes; almost as frequently,
one may note, as the more celebrated vin du
Hospice.
South from Beaune is Mersault, a tiny city
of the Côte de Beaune. All about its clean-
swept streets rise well-kept, pretentious dwell-
ings, many of them the gabled variety so like
so like the mediaeval chateaux, though indeed they may
date only from the last three-quarters of a
century, or since the Eevolution.

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