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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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tions of Henri IV at Thoisy-la-Berchere. Later restorations, by the Marquisde Montbossier, who occupies it to-day, havemade of it one of the most attractive of theminor chateaux of France. One may visit itunder certain conditions, whether the family isin residence or not, and will carry away memo-ries of many splendid chimney pieces and walltapestries. For the rest the furnishings aremodern, which is saying that they are banal.This of course need not always be so, but whenthe Renaissance is mixed with the art nouveauand the latest fantasies of Dufayal it lacks ap-peal. This is as bad as Empire and Mis-sion, which seem to have set the pace for club furniture during the past decade. Amay-le-Duc still to the south was the siteof a ducal Burgundian manor which almostreached the distinction of a palace. Here thecountry loving dukes spent not a little of theirleisure time when away from their capital. Arnay-le-Duc, more than any other town ofits class in France, retains its almost undefiled
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a::^-::!-;:—.-s---: Semur-en-Auxois, Epoisses, Bourbilly 61 feudal aspect to-day when viewed from beyondthe walls. Formerly it was the seat of a hail-liage and has conserved the debris of the feudalofficial residence. This is supported in additionby many fine examples of Renaissance-Burgun-dian architectural treasures which give thetown at once the stamp of genuineness which itwill take many years of progress to whollyeradicate. None of these fine structures, least of all theducal manor, is perfectly conserved, but theremains are sufficiently ample and well caredfor to merit the classification of still beingreckoned habitable and of importance. The oldmanor of the dukes has now descended to morehumble uses, but has lost little of the aristo-cratic bearing which it once owned. It was near this fortified bourgade of otherdays — fortified that the dukes might rest inpeace when they repaired thither — that the in-fant Henri IV, at the age of sixteen, receivedhis baptism of fire and

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