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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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a Gloirede IAssemblee de Vizille . . . et prepare laEevolution Francaise. This was the first parliamentary vote againstthe sustaining of aristocratic hereditary gov-ernment in favour of popular representation —really the general signal for revolution, a yearbefore the convention at Versailles. The massive pile, ornate but not burdensome,with its mansards, its towers and terraces, com-poses with its environment in a most agreeablemanner. Known originally as the Chateau des Les-diguieres, for it was built originally by thatcelebrated Constable, Vice-Roi du Dauphine,the Chateau de Vizille was formerly the prop-erty of the family of Casimir Perier, thatwhich gave a president to the later Republic. In the early part of the seventeenth centurya German traveller, Abraham Goelnitz,** greatly admired the chateau, and comparedit to that of the Due dEpernon at Cadillac,which contained seventy rooms. That of theMarechal Lesdiguieres had a hundred andtwenty-five, among them (at that time) a pic-
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Chateau de Vizille Grenoble and Vizille ^ ture gallery, an arsenal with six hundred suitsof armour, two thousand pikes and ten thou-sand muskets, as the inventory read. No won-der Eichelieu would have reduced the powerof the local seigneurs when they could get, andkeep together, such a store as that. Vizille abounds in historical memories themost exciting; the very fact that it was thehome of Lesdiguieres, the terrible companionof the Baron des Adrets — a Dauphinese ty-rant, a warrior-pillager and much more thathistory vouches for — explains this. ^ Viendrez ou je hrulerai/ Lesdiguiereswrote to the recalcitrant vassals of his kingwho originally had a castle on the same site.And when they stepped out, leaving the edificeunharmed, he stepped in and threw it to theground and built the less militant chateauwhich one sees to-day. This edifice as it nowstands was practically the work of Lesdiguieres.The Protestant governor of Dauphiny wasreckoned a sly fox by the Due de Savoie,and doubt

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