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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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hat most of us make of thequaint little Dauphinese city a place of pilgrim-age. Saint Marcellin was the seat of the ancientDauphinese Parliament, but since it was threetimes destroyed by fire, it actually possessesbut few of its old-time monumental records instone. Beauvoir, scarce a kilometre away fromSaint Marcellin, was the site of an incompara-ble chateau-fort which, it is sad to state, theenthusiasm of Louis XI for pulling things downdid not leave unspoiled. To-day the chateau^is a reminiscence only, but the situation, at thejuncture of the Iseret, the Isere and the Cuman,tells the possibilities of its storied past in theeyes rapid review. There is little doubt thatmere attack could have had but small effect onits sturdy walls, and that its having been des-troyed or injured in any way must have beenthe result of weakness or lack of courage on thepart of those who held it from within. Onlytwo definite architectural details of this greatfortress remain as they were in those warlike
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Chateau de Beauvoir In Lower Dauphiny 317 times, the tower of the chapel and a flank ofwall containing a series of ogival windows. Still in the Vallee Saint Marcellinoise, as thisjunction of the three rivers is known, one seesthe ignoble pile which marks the site of theformer chateau of the Seigneur de Flandaines,one of the allies of the Dauphins, descendedfrom one of the proudest families of the region. The Seigneur de Flandaines would buildhimself a stronghold so sturdy that no onemight take it from him, nor ho one drive himout; primarily this was the formula uponwhich all castles were built. This was the verysentiment that the seigneur expressed to LouisXI at the time when the latter was but a Princeof Dauphiny: Lou vassa defe, valan mais que lousignous in buro. It was only another way of saying (in thelocal patois) that a vassal clothed in armourwas worth considerably more than one whodressed only in velvet. The Dauphin took this to mean much, but hehad a mighty envy for the Seign

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