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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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train which well explains the relations of
Bresse with the surrounding provinces.

" Pont-de-Veyle et Pont-de-Vaux,
Saint Trivier at Romeno
Sont quat' villes bien renommo ;
Mias viv' Macon pour beir
Et Bourg pour mangi."

Bresse, more than any other of the subdivi-
sions of medisæval and modern France, is en-
dowed with renown for the sobriety and purity
of the life of its people; and family ties are
" respectable and respected," as the saying
goes. Above all has this been notably true of
the nobility, who were ever looked up to with
love and pride by those of lower stations.
Among the common people never has one been
found to willingly ally himself, or herself, with
another family who might have a blot on its
escutcheon. The marriage vow and its usages
are simple but devout, and in addition to the
usual observations the peasant husband grants,
as a part of the marriage contract, a black
dress to be worn at Toussaint and the Jour des
Mortes, and to all family mourning celebra-
tions. If a widow or widower seeks another
partner the event is celebrated by a ball — for
which the doubly wedded party pays.
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Women of Bresse

On the Swiss Border 201

The village fêtes of Bresse, still continued in
many an out-of-the-way little town, are the
usual drinking and dancing festins of the comic
opera merry-making variety. They are simple
and proper enough exhibitions, and never de-
scend to the freedom of speech and manners
that such exhibitions often do in the Midi.
None more than Brillat-Savarin has carried
the fame of Bresse abroad. A one-time mem-
ber of the Cour de Cassation, he perhaps was
better known to the world at large as the father
of gastronomy in France. His " Psychologie
de Gout," if nothing else, would warrant giving
him this title.
Val-Romey — the Vallis Romana of the Em-
perors— and Bugey had for overlords the
Sires de Thoire et Villars. It, too, came in time
to the Ducs de Savoie, by gift and by heritage,
and also was ceded in 1601 to Henri IV, by vir-
tue of the Treaty of Lyons. Dombes, principality in little, although at
first a part of the kingdom of Burgundy, later
fell by favour of circumstances to the Sires of
Beauge and afterwards to the Sire de Beau-
jeau.

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