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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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es it by. But, although there is nothinginspiring to be had from even a glance of theeye in any direction as one stops a brief mo-ment at the station, nevertheless it is a prolificcentre for a series of historical pilgrimageswhich, for pleasurable edification, would makethe traveller remember it all his life did he giveit more than a passing thought. One mustknow its history though, or many of the historicsouvenirs will be passed by without an impres-sion worth while. On Mont Auxois, rising up back of the town,stands a colossal statue of Vercingetorix, inmemory of a resistance which he here madeagainst the usually redoubtable Caesar. Six kilometres away there is one of the mostromantically historic of all the minor chateauxof France and one not to be omitted from any-bodys chateaux tour of France. It is theChateau de Bussy-Rabutin, to-day restored andreinhabited, though for long periods since itsconstruction it was empty save for bats andmice. This restoration, which looks to-day like
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Montbard and Bussy-Rabutin 69 a part of the original fabric, was the conceitof the Comte de Bussy-Eabutin, a cousin ofMadame de Sevigne in the seventeenth century.It gives one the impression of being an exactreplica of a seigneurial domain of its time. The main fabric is a vast square edifice withfour towers, each marking one of the cardinalpoints. The Tour du Donjon to the east, andthe Tour de la Chapelle to the west are boundto a heavy ungainly fagade which the ComteRoger de Bussy-Rabutin built in 1649. Thisligature is a sort of a galleried arcade whichitself dates from the reign of Henri II. As to its foundation the chateau, probablydates from an ancestor who came into being inthe twelfth century. In later centuries it fre-quently changed hands, until it came to Leon-ard du Rabutin, Baron dEpiry, and father ofthe Comte Roger who did the real work ofremodelling. It was this Comte Roger who hasgone down to fame as the too-celebrated cousinof Madame de Sevigne. To-day, the chateaubelo

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