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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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nowned by the MacMahons. There are somefragments lying about which belong to anotheredifice which dates from the thirteenth century,but not enough to give the stones the distinctionof being called even a ruined chateau. Epinacs chateau dates from at least two cen-turies before the Chateau de Sully, and is aresurrection of an old chateau-fort. Two greatheavy towers remain to-day as the chief archi-tectural features, beside an extent of mainbuilding through whose walls are cut a seriesof splendid Gothic window frames. Traditionhas it that these towers were originally muchmore lofty, but at the period when barons,whether rightly or wrongly, held their swayover their peers and anyone else who might bearound, if the local seigneur was beaten at atourney, the penalty he paid was to cut the tow-ers of his castle down one-half. This seems agood enough tale to tack to a mediaeval castle,as good as a ghost tale, and as satisfactory asif it were a recorded fact of history, instead ofmere legend.
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>^ Chateau de Sullv In the Cote d*Or 151 Originally these towers of the ChateaudEpinac were of such an overwhelming heightthat they could be seen a hundred leaguesaround — this is local tradition again, and thistime it is probably exaggeration. Three hun-dred miles is a long birds-eye view indeed!Anyway a local couplet reads thus, and isseemingly justifiable: Demene-toi, tourne toi, vire toi,Tu ne trouveras pas plus beau que moi. Epinac, too, is noted for its bottles, the fat-bellied, ample litres in which ripe old Burgundyis sold. Dame Jeans and flacons arehere made by millions, which is only anotherway of referring to demijohns and bottles. Oftheir variety of shapes and sizes one may judgeby the song the workers sing as they ply theirtrade: Messieurs, messieurs, laissez nous faireOn vous en donnera de toutes les f aeons The glass industry of iSpinac, if not as oldas its chateau, at least dates from the veryearliest days of the art. Eetracing ones steps some forty kilometresto C

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