IN LOWER DAUPHINY
There is not a village or a town in Dauphiny, be it ever so humble, but
which guards some vestige or tradition of some feudal chateau or
fortress of the neighbourhood. Nor are ocular evidences wanting which
even he who runs may read. This is far from stating that the region is
strewn with noble and luxurious monuments as are Touraine or Anjou, but
nevertheless he, or she, who knows how to translate the story of the
stones may make up history to any extent he likes, and yet never finish
the volume. And much of the tale will be as vivid and thrilling as that
of the western and southern provinces, which are usually given the palm
for romance.
On almost any site around one's horizon a seigneur might have built
himself a chateau, an all but impregnable stronghold where he might
sustain successfully the powers vested in him as a vassal of the
Dauphin. This was the usual procedure, and if many of these classic
strongholds have disappeared, there are enough remaining to suggest the
frequency and solidity of mediæval building in these parts, a species of
castle building which here in the mountains differed not a little from
that of the lowlands. It is just this view-point that makes the study of
the chateaux of Dauphiny the more interesting. Even the imperfectly
preserved ruins which crown many a peak and hill-top are suggestive of
this unique and effective manner of castle building, and though many
have fallen from sheer decay in later years, it is chiefly because they
were undermined or overthrown in some great or petty quarrel, and not
because their design was not well thought out nor their workmanship
thorough. The picks of Louis XI caused more actual depredation than has
the stress of time. Often but a local legend remains to tell the tale.
Chambaraud, Mantailles, and Beaufort have disappeared, and Moras,
Thodure and Vireville, all of them reminiscent of the prowess of the
feudal barons, are in truth but dim reminiscences of their once proud
estate.
Between Grenoble and Vienne is the Chateau de Bressieux, most
picturesque, the first great requirement of a castle. It dates, in part,
from the twelfth century. That is its second qualification. Antiquity
comes after picturesqueness in its appeal to even the traveller of
conventional mould.
The Barons of Bressieux were by the right of their title members of the
Parliament of Dauphiny. The situation of their chateau assured them the
full and free exercise of their power, right or wrong, and, like all the
Dauphinese seigneurs, they were practically rulers of a lilliputian
empire.
It seems that the celebrated Mandrin, a brigand so dignified that he was
ranked as a "_gentilhomme_," married into the family of Bressieux.
History has apparently been unjust to Mandrin, "the _escroc_ who
possessed the manners of a dandy," but at any rate there be those in
Dauphiny to-day who revere his memory before that of Bayard.
Saint Marcellin, in the lower valley of the Isère, is Italian in its
general aspect and layout. Its house walls, its roof-tops and its
arcaded streets are what most folk will at once call Italian. Be this as
it may, it was originally the stronghold of the native Dauphins and the
place in their _royaume_ where they lived the most at ease and ate and
drank the best. This is not conjecture or a far-away twentieth century
estimate, but a quotation from recorded history. The only thing one
recalls of Saint Marcellin in the eating line to-day is an exceedingly
pungent variety of goat's milk cheese. It is not for that that most of
us make of the quaint little Dauphinese city a place of pilgrimage.
Saint Marcellin was the seat of the ancient Dauphinese Parliament, but
since it was three times destroyed by fire, it actually possesses but
few of its old-time monumental records in stone.
Beauvoir, scarce a kilometre away from Saint Marcellin, was the site of
an incomparable chateau-fort which, it is sad to state, the enthusiasm
of Louis XI for pulling things down did not leave unspoiled. To-day the
chateau is a reminiscence only, but the situation, at the juncture of
the Iseret, the Isère and the Cuman, tells the possibilities of its
storied past in the eye's rapid review. There is little doubt that mere
attack could have had but small effect on its sturdy walls, and that its
having been destroyed or injured in any way must have been the result of
weakness or lack of courage on the part of those who held it from
within. Only two definite architectural details of this great fortress
remain as they were in those warlike
[Illustration: _Chateau de Beauvoir_]
times, the tower of the chapel and a flank of wall containing a series
of ogival windows.
Still in the Vallée Saint Marcellinoise, as this junction of the three
rivers is known, one sees the ignoble pile which marks the site of the
former chateau of the Seigneur de Flandaines, one of the allies of the
Dauphins, descended from one of the proudest families of the region.
The Seigneur de Flandaines would build himself a stronghold so sturdy
that no one might take it from him, nor no one drive him out; primarily
this was the formula upon which all castles were built. This was the
very sentiment that the seigneur expressed to Louis XI at the time when
the latter was but a Prince of Dauphiny:
"_Lou vassa de fe valan mais que lousignous in buro._"
It was only another way of saying (in the local _patois_) that a vassal
clothed in armour was worth considerably more than one who dressed only
in velvet.
The Dauphin took this to mean much, but he had a mighty envy for the
Seigneur de Flandaines, and sought forthwith the ways and means by which
to turn him out of his fortress abode.
The Dauphin invited the seigneur to a court ball and plied him and his
retainers with food and drink, not only to excess, but to the point of
insensibility. After this the troops of the Dauphin marched on
Flandaines, took it without the least resistance, turned it over to the
crowbars of the house-breakers, and went back and told their prince that
their work was finished.
In the Chateau de Rochechinard, near Flandaines, the Dame de Beaujeau,
emulator of the policy of Louis XI, martyred the poor Zizim, son of
Mohamet II and brother of Bajazet. The history of the affair entire is
not to be recounted here, but the Turk was exiled in France and chose
this "pays de Franguistan," of which he had read, as the preferred place
of his future abode.
Louis XI arranged with one of his Dauphinese familiars to take the
infidel into his chateau. The alien was at first enchanted with his new
life and played the zither and sang songs to the fair ladies of Dauphiny
all the long day with all the gallantry of a noble of France. He went
further: he would have married with one of the most gracious he had met:
"It was a thing a thousand times more to be sought for than the control
of the Ottoman Empire," he said.
For the moment it was the one thing that the Turk desired in life. Proof
goes further and states that for the purpose he became converted to
Christianity.
And the rest? The fair lady of Dauphiny did not marry the Turk; so he
was sent a hundred leagues away in further exile and the daughter of the
Béranger-Sasseange married and forgot--in fact she married three times
before she eradicated the complete memory of the affair.
To-day the walls of Rochechinard are half buried in an undergrowth of
vine and shrubs and are nothing more than a sad reminder of the history
which has gone before.
Three leagues from Saint Marcellin and Beauvoir is Saint Antoine, a
sixteenth century townlet of fifteen hundred souls which has endured
much, as it has always existed unto this day. It possesses one of the
most remarkable and astonishing flamboyant-Gothic churches in all
Christendom.
During the middle ages Saint Antoine was a place of pilgrimage for Popes
and princes, and the Dauphins, by reason of their intimate associations
with the distinguished visitors to their country, gained both riches and
power from the circumstance.
When Dauphiny came to be united to the Crown of France the tradition of
Saint Antoine and its life-giving wine continued, and neither François
Premier nor Louis XI neglected to make the journey thither. In the case
of François Premier there may have been another good, or at least
sufficient, reason, for Saint Vallier and Diane de Poitiers were but a
few hours away. But that's another point of view, a by-path which need
not be followed here, since it would lead us too far astray.
Following still the valley of the Isère, one comes to the Chateau de la
Sone, at one time one of the strongest fortifications of the lower
valley. It was the key to the Royonnais, and a subterranean passage led
from its platform underneath the bed of the Isère itself to a chateau of
the Dauphins on the opposite bank.
With the establishment of a silk-mill here in the chateau in 1771 all
romance fled, and there being no more need for a subterranean exit, the
passage-way was allowed to fill up. To-day one takes the assertion on
faith; there is nothing to prove it one way or another.
It was here within these walls that Vaucanson (1709-1782), the
"_sorcier-mécanicien_," invented the chain without end, which
revolutionized the silk-spinning industry.
The aspect of the chateau to-day, declassed though it is, is most
picturesque. It is the very ideal of a riverside castle, for it bears
the proud profile of a fortress of no mean pretensions even now, far
more than it does that of a luxurious dwelling or a banal factory. It is
one of those structures one loves to know intimately, and not ignore
just because it has become a commoner among the noble chateaux of
history.
Two very curious twin towns are Romans and Bourg-de-Péage, separated by
the rapidly flowing waters of the Isère. If such a groupment of old
houses and rooftops were in Switzerland or Germany, and were presided
over by some burgrave or seneschal, all the world of tourists would rave
over their atmosphere of mediævalism. Being in France, and off the main
lines of travel, they are largely ignored, even by the French
themselves. It is to be remarked that their history and romance have
been such that the souvenirs and monuments which still exist in these
curious old towns are most appealing. In that they are now seeking to
attract visitors, a better fate is perhaps in store for Romans and
Bourg-de-Péage than has been their portion during the last decade of
popular touring.
Chateaux of a minor sort there are galore at Romans. Noble and opulent
_hôtels privées_ in almost every street reflect the glories of the days
of the Dauphins, still but little dimmed. Here and there an elaborately
sculptured façade without, or a courtyard within, bespeaks a lineal
dignity that of later years has somewhat paled before the exigencies of
modern life.
Romans of late years has become a _ville commercante_ and has broken the
bounds of its old ramparts and flowed over into new quarters and suburbs
which have little enough the character of the old town. This is a
feature to be remarked of most French towns which are not actually
somnolent, though true enough it is that in population they may have
gained very little on the centuries gone by. The demand is for new
living conditions, as well as those of trade, and so perforce a certain
part of the population has to go outside to live in comfort.
It was from the castle of Mazard at Romans, now a poor undignified ruin,
that the last of the _native_ Dauphins signed his abdication in favour
of Philippe de Valois, who acquired the province for the French Crown.
The event was induced by the loss of his infant son, who, by some
mysterious agent, fell into the swift-flowing Isère at the base of the
castle walls. Overwhelmed with grief, the father would no longer hold
the reins of state, and turned his patrimony over to the French king
with content and satisfaction, stipulating only that the French heir to
the throne should be known as the Dauphin henceforth, a state of affairs
which obtained until the reign of Louis Philippe.
South from Romans lies Die, which in spite of its great antiquity has
conserved little of its ancient feudal memories. There are some ancient
walls with a supporting tower here and there, but this is all that
remains to suggest the power that once radiated from the _Dea
Vocontiorum_ of the ancients.
From Die down towards the Rhône, through the valley of the Drome, is
however a pathway still strewn with many reminders of the feudality.
Where the valley of Quint enters that of the Drome, are Pontaix and
Sainte Croix, each of them possessed of a fine old ruin of a chateau on
a hill overlooking the town and the river-bed below.
Outside the stage setting of an opera no one ever saw quite so
romantically disposed a landscape as here. The hills and vales bordering
upon the Rhine actually grow pale before this little stretch of a dozen
kilometres along the banks of the Drome.
The village of Sainte Croix, and its chateau, is the more notable of the
two mentioned, and played an important rôle in the military history of
the Diois. First of all the Romans laid the foundations of the fortress
one sees on the height above the crooked streets of the town. This was
originally a work intended to protect their communications from their
capital city at Vienne, on the banks of the Rhône, with Milan, beyond
the Alpine frontier.
Formerly, it was a stronghold of the Emperor of the Occident, and in
1215 the Emperor Frederick II gave it to the Bishop of Saint
Paul-Trois-Chateaux, who, by the end of the century, had transferred it
to the house of Poitiers. Catholics and Protestants occupied it turn by
turn during the religious wars, when, after the taking of La Rochelle,
Richelieu razed it, as he did so many another feudal monument up and
down the length and breadth of France.
A great modern--comparatively modern--pile situated at the entrance of
the village, has nothing in common with the old fortress on the height,
and, though to-day it well presents the suggestion of a fortified
mediæval manor, it is in reality nothing but a walled farm, a
transformation from an old Antonian convent suppressed at the
Revolution.
Index
_Adrets, Baron des_, 227
_Aguesseau, Chancelier d'_, 42
Aix-les-Bains, 239, 242-243, 279
Albertville, 243, 286
_Allemon, Seigneurs d'_, 224
Allinges, 269
_Amboise, Jacques d'_, 161
Ancy-le-Franc, 16, 93-99
_Andelot Family_, 87-88
_Angely, Regnault de Saint-Jean d'_, 34
_Anjou, René d'_, 118
Annecy, 260-262, 279
Anse, 180
Apremont, 111
_Arbaud, Charles_, 57
Argentière, 302
_Arles, Cardinal d'_, 272
Arnay-le-Duc, 5, 57, 60-61
Autun, 58, 70, 171
Auxerre, 5, 19, 20, 29-34, 35, 37, 38, 104
_Auxerre, Comtes d'_, 30, 33, 35
_Auxerre, Geoffroy, Bishop of_, 32
Auxois, The, 51
Auxonne, 186, 187-189
Avallon, 20, 36-37, 43, 50
Avignon, 108
Bagé-le-Chatel, 177
_Bagé, Seigneurs de_, 177, 179, 199, 210
_Bar, Duc de_, 118
Bar-sur-Seine, 80-81
Barraux, Fort, 247, 251-252, 288
_Bartholdi_, 194, 198
Bathie, 286
_Bavière, Family_, 105, 126, 127
Bayard, Chateau de, 247-252
_Bayard, Chevalier_, 221-222, 247-251, 315
Bazoche and its Chateau, 46-48
Beaufort, 314
_Beaujeau, Anne de_, 147, 318
_Beaujeau, Sire de_, 179, 180, 201
Beaujolais, The, 170, 181
Beaune, 9, 13, 108, 109, 124, 131, 133, 139-145, 178
_Beaune, Claude de la_, 168
Beauregard, Chateau de, 267
Beauvoir, 316, 319
_Bedford, Duke of_, 64, 127, 130
Belfort, 194, 195, 197-198
Belleville-sur-Saône, 179-180
Belley, 215, 216-217
_Benoit XIII_, 108
_Berry, Duchesse de_, 72
_Bertin_, 8
_Bertrand, General_, 222
Besançon, 17, 185, 186, 187, 190, 191-194, 208
_Besnard, Albert_, 263
_Biron, Maréchal de_, 141
Blamont, 196
Blay, 286
_Blonay, Baron de_, 276
Blonay, Chateau de, 275
Blonay, Manoir de, 276
Bordeau, 242
Boulogne, 37
Bourbilly and its Chateau, 52, 53, 54-56, 59
_Bourbon, House of_, 30, 161, 179, 201, 211
Bourbonnais, The, 2, 12
Bourg-de-Péage, 321
Bourg d'Oisans, 300-301
Bourg-en-Bresse, 85, 177, 206, 209-211, 212, 213
Bourges, 27
Bourget du Lac and its Chateau, 239-240
Bourgogne, Canal de, 109
Bourguignons, 81
_Bourrienne_, 34
_Boyvin_, 191
Boz, 202
Brançion, Chateau de, 162-163
_Brandes_, 281
Bresse, 2, 14, 177, 199-201, 205-214
Bressieux, Chateau de, 314-315
_Briançon, Seigneurs de_, 303-306
Brienne-le-Chateau, 80, 189
_Brillat-Savarin_, 201
_Brouhée_, 124
_Buffon_, 4, 52, 62-66
Bugey, 2, 14, 199, 201
_Burgundy, House of_, 30, 37, 4, 57, 64, 75,
79, 85, 100, 102, 105, 108, 113-130, 133-134,
144, 145, 147, 164, 272, 311
Bussy-Rabutin, Chateau de, 68-74
_Bussy-Rabutin Family_, 55, 69-74
_Calixtus II_, 98, 159
_Capet, Hughes_, 36, 115
_Carnot, Lazare_, 4, 146-147, 278
Carpentras, 173
Cavaillon, 173
_Celestin IV_, 242
_Cerceau, Androuet du_, 95-96, 181
_Chabas, Paul_, 264
Chablais, The, 269, 271, 276
Chalon-sur-Saône, 5, 151, 170, 171-173, 174, 175, 177
Chambaraud, 314
Chambertin, 133, 135, 137
Chambéry, 229-239, 243, 247, 251, 260
Chambord, 95, 96
_Chambre, Pierre de la_, 283
_Chambrette_, 124
_Champagne, Counts of_, 19, 100
Champdivers, 208
_Champdivers, Odette de_, 208
Chagny, 151-152
Chanceaux, 109
_Chantel, Mme. de_ (St. Jeanne de), 54, 55, 71
Chantilly, 154
Charbonne, 262
_Charles I_ (Le Chauve), 175, 206, 213, 302, 303
_Charles VI_, 208
_Charles VII_, 28, 30
_Charles VIII_, 188, 220, 303
_Charles IX_, 93, 171
_Charles X_, 57
_Charles V_ (Emperor), 116, 192, 193
Charolles, 153, 155, 171
Chastellux, Chateau de, 16, 37-43, 44
Chastillon (see Châtillon)
Chateau des Ducs (see Chastillon)
Chateauneuf, 206-207
_Chateau-Vieille Ville, Seigneurs de_, 308
Chatel-Censoir, 35
Chatelet, 196
_Chatelet Family_, 52
Châtillon-sur-Seine, 35, 62, 66, 75-82, 86
Châtillon-les-Dombes, 215
_Châtillon, House of_, 241-242, 261
Chaumont-la-Guiche, 154
Chazeu, 70
Chénove, 133-134
Chéran, The, 243
Chignin, Chateau de, 238
Chinon, Chateau, 35
Clamecy, 35
_Clement VII_, 179, 260
Clémont, 196
_Clermont Family_, 93, 96, 97-98
Clos de la Perrière, 134
Clos du Chapitre, 134
Clos Vougeot, 9, 135-137, 142
Cluny and Its Abbey, 13-14, 157-162
_Coeur, Jacques_, 27
Cognac, 116
_Colbert_, 70, 174
_Coligny Family_, 87-88, 90, 92, 93, 216
_Colin, Sieur_, 6
_Condé, Prince de_, 66, 87, 190
Conflans, 261, 286-288
Corcheval, 153
Cormatin, Chateau de, 162
Corps, 312
Corton, 144-145
_Cossé-Brissac, Maréchal_, 61
_Costa, Marquis Leon and Joseph_, 267
Coucy, 12
Coudrée, Chateau de, 268
Coulanges-sur-Yonne, 35
Courcelles-les-Ranges, Chateau de, 79
_Courtney Family_, 87-88, 90
_Cousin, Jean_, 34
_Coypel_, 72
Crais-Billon, 135
Crest, 246
Crussol, 298-299
Cuiseaux, 212
Cure, The, 38
Cussy-la-Colonne, 56-57
Dampierre, 95
_Daudet, Alphonse_, 236
Dauphiny, 2, 14, 15, 218-228, 245-247, 252, 256, 257, 266, 279, 290-324
De La Roche, 269
Dents du Lanfont, 263
Dheune, The, 109
Die, 246, 323-324
Dijon, 13, 14, 17, 24, 52, 66, 67, 68, 70, 85, 99,
103, 104, 110, 111, 112, 113-130, 133, 135, 171, 185, 186, 190
Dole, 190-191, 209
Dombes, Principality of, 2, 14, 178, 180, 182, 183-184, 199, 201, 202, 215
Donzy, 173
Doussard, Forêt de, 264
Douvaine, 268
_Ducloz, Canon_, 288
Duesme, 82-83
Dufayal, 60
_Duguesclin_, 71
Duingt, Chateau de, 263
_Dunois_, 71
Duretal, 212
_Edward III_, 33
Embrun, 302, 308, 309-311
_Eon, Chevalier d'_, 34
_Epailly, Jacques d'_, 36
Épinac, 148-151
_Epiry, Baron d'_, 69
Époisses, 20, 52-55
_Eugene IV_, 272
_Evelyn_, 6
Évian, 271, 273-276, 279
Excevenex, 268
_Fabre, Ferdinand_, 263
_Fagon_, 138
Falais, 12
Farcins, 181
_Fargis Family, De_, 147
Faucigny, 269
Faverges, 264
Fécamp, Abbey de, 142
Feisons, 286
_Felix V_, 272
Fernay, 204-205
_Fésigny_, 282
Fixin, 134-135
_Flandaines, Seigneur de_, 317-318
Franche, Comté, 2, 17, 116, 185-197, 208
_François I_, 116, 124, 154, 171, 183,
213, 216, 220, 254, 280, 281, 287, 296-297, 306, 320
_Froissart_, 80
_Furstemburg, Comte de_, 213-214
_Gallas_, 189
_Galley, Mlle._, 265
Gap, 214, 248, 302, 311-312
Gatinais, The, 20
_Gellan, Nicolas de_, 76
_Gelasse II_, 159
Geneva, 102, 203-204, 215, 259, 265-268
_Genevois, Comtes de_, 260-261, 263, 268, 275
Genlis, 186, 187
Gevrey, 135
Gex, 203-204, 266
Givry, 173
_Godran, Odinet_, 129
_Goelnitz, Abraham_, 226
_Gondi, Cardinal de_, 25
_Graffeny, Mlle._, 265
Grange du Hameau de Chavoires, 262
_Granville Family_, 193
_Gregory VIII_, 98
_Gregory IX_, 241
Grenoble, 219-224, 225, 244, 247, 248, 253, 254, 291, 292, 300, 314
Grésy, 286
_Greuze_, 4, 176
Gribaldi, Manoir, 275
Grignan, 246
_Grignan, Comtesse de_, 55, 72
Guiche Family, De, 154
_Guillebaud_, 220
Guitant, Chateau de, 55, 59
_Gunsbourg, M._, 162
Hautecombe, Abbey of, 239, 240
_Hémery, Porticelli d'_, 88-89
_Henri II_, 69, 73, 94, 280
_Henri IV_, 52, 60, 61, 76, 77, 88, 141, 149,
165, 175, 181, 185, 201, 252, 261, 264, 281, 287, 306
_Héredia, José-Maria_, 263
Héricourt, 196
Hermance, 267
_Heurta, Jehan de la_, 127
_Houssaye, Arsène_, 205
Huchisi, 202
_Hugues III_, 118
Hulls, Chateau des (see La Rochette)
_Humbert IV_, 181
Ile-de-la-Palme, 176-177
_Innocent IV_, 159
_Jean-sans-Peur_, 64, 126-127
Joigny, 5, 20, 25-27
_Joinville, House of_, 203
_Jude, Paul_, 220
_Just_, 73
Labedoyère, 249
_La Fontaine_, 7
_Lamartine_, 165-168, 243, 246, 267-268
Lamartine, Chateau de, 166-168
_Langeac, Comtesse de_, 78
_Langres_, 149
Lans-le-Bourg, 286
_Laroche, Madame_, 8
La Rochepot, Chateau de, 146-148
La Rochette, 269, 282-283
La Tour Ronde, 276-277
_Lauzun_, 202
_La Valette, Cardinal_, 190
_Lavin_, 284
_Lebrun_, 73
Le Chatelard, 243
_Lemuet_, 88, 91
_Le Notre_, 30, 74
_Lepautre, Jean_, 220
_Lepelletier de Saint Fargeau_, 28
Les Bauges, 243
Lesdiguières, Chateaux de, 311-312
_Lesdiguières, Maréchal de_, 214, 221,
226-227, 252, 288, 306, 308, 311-312
Les Laumes, 68
_Lippomano_, 7
_Longueville, Duchesse de_, 6, 66
Lorraine, Duchy of, 196
Lorris, 22
Louhans, 211, 212
Louis I (Le Débonnaire), 164, 177
_Louis VII_ (Le Jeune), 22, 45
_Louis IX_ (Saint), 45, 159
_Louis XI_, 30, 116, 142, 188,
220, 251, 296, 298, 309-310, 314, 316, 317, 318, 320
_Louis XII_, 108, 116, 188, 247, 254
_Louis XIII_, 73, 124, 190, 213, 228, 282
_Louis XIV_, 38, 70, 71, 74, 94, 99, 102, 130, 138, 183, 201-202, 220
_Louis XV_, 63
_Louis XVI_, 78
_Louis Philippe_, 167, 323
_Louvois, Marquis de_, 94, 98
Lugny, 153
_Luvois Family_, 84
_MacMahon Family_, 150
Mâcon, 5, 25, 153, 157, 163-165, 168, 170, 171, 175, 177, 178, 210, 213
Magny-en-Vexin, 25
Mailly-le-Chateau, 35
_Maine, Duc de_, 202
_Mandrin_, 315
_Mansart_, 122
Mantaille, Chateau de, 293
Mantailles, 314
Mantoche, 111
Manuel, Chateau de, 287
_Marchand, Commandant_, 178
Marcigny, 155-156
_Marges, Comte de_, 225
_Marigny Family_, 54
Marmont, Chateau de (see Châtillon)
_Marmont, Maréchal_, 78, 79
_Maurienne, Comte de_, 305-306
Maxilly, 276
_Mayenne, Duc de_, 175, 179
_Mazard, Castle of_, 322
_Mazarin, Cardinal_, 31, 74, 88
_Medicis, Catherine de_, 87, 92
Meillerie, 277
_Mello Family, De_, 54
_Menabrea, Leon_, 282
_Mercier_, 5
Mercurey, 173
Mersault, 133, 145-146
_Michelet_, 4
_Mignard_, 72, 73, 92
Milly, 166
Miolans, Chateau de, 16, 239, 283-285, 287
_Mirabeau, Marquis de_, 88
Molay, 208
_Molière_, 56
_Moiturier, Antoine_, 127
_Monetier-les-Bains_, 301
_Monge_, 4
_Monglat, Marquise de_, 70, 71, 73, 74
_Monillefert_, 145
Montagny, Chateau de, 239
Montaigu, Chateau de, 173
_Montaigu Family_, 150
Montbard and its Chateau, 52, 62-66, 68
Montbéliard, 190, 194-197
_Montbossier, Marquis de_, 60
Montcony, 212
Mont Dauphin, 308
Montelimar, 246
_Montepin, Xavier de_, 111
Montersine, 153
_Montfaucon Family_, 196
Montluel, 215
Montmayeur Family, 282, 284
Montmélian, 16, 239, 252, 279-282, 283, 285
Montmerle, 180-181
_Montmorency Family_, 88, 147
_Montpensier, Mlle. de_, 6, 7, 28, 201
Montréal, Chateau de, 37, 43-44
_Montréal, Family of_, 40, 44
_Montreval, Comte de_, 165
_Montvallezen-sur-Séez_, 288
Moras, 314
Moret-sur-Loing, 25
_Morveau, Guyton de_, 4
Moulin-à-Vent, 138
Moulins-en-Allier, 140
Moutiers, 286
_Murillo_, 74
_Musset, Alfred de_, 65
Nantua, 213
_Napoleon I_, 80, 111, 134-135, 189, 222, 248-249, 296, 298, 301, 302-303
_Napoleon III_, 233
_Nattier_, 92
_Nemours, Ducs de_, 261-262
Nernier, 267-268
_Nevers, Renaud, Comte de_, 30
Noble, Chateau de, 168-169
_Noblemaire, M._, 264
_Noisat, Commandant_, 134-135
Nolay, 146-147
Nuits, 131, 133, 139
Nuits-sous-Ravières, 99-100
_Orléans, Henrietta, Duchesse d'_, 232
Paray-le-Monail, 17, 155
_Passerat, Baron_, 268
_Peregrin_, 92
_Perier, Casimir_, 226
Pernand, 145
_Perrenot, Nicolas_, 193
_Philibert le Beau_, 211
_Philibert II_, 216
_Philippe-Auguste_, 23, 45, 183
_Philippe-de-Champaigne_, 92
_Philippe-le-Bon_, 36, 64, 118
_Philippe-le-Hardi_, 105, 108, 115, 118, 126-127, 134
_Philippe II_, 193
Pierre, 208
_Pisa, Nicolas de_, 168
_Poitiers, Diane de_, 93, 256-257, 320
Pommard, 131
Pontaix, 323
Pontarlier, 186, 187
Pontcharra, 247, 251, 252
Pont d'Ain, 215
Pont-de-Vaux, 212-213
Pont-de-Veyle, 213-214
_Pot, Philippe_, 147
Pouges-les-Eaux, 7
_Poussin_, 74
_Primataccio_, 92, 96-97
_Prud'hon_, 4
_Quentin de la Tour_, 92
Queyras, Chateau, 308-309
Quincy, The, 90
_Rabutin Family_, 150
_Rabutin-Chantel Family_, 54, 69
_Ragny, Dame de_, 44
_Raguse, Duc de_, 78, 79
Rambeauteau, 153
_Rameau_, 4
_Rancurelle_, 129
_Renan, Ernest_, 263
_Ribbonnier_, 149
_Richard Coeur-de-Lion_, 45
_Richelieu_, 10, 73, 97, 190, 227, 324
Ripaille, Chateau de, 271-273
_Roche, Sires de la_, 147
Rochechinard, Chateau de, 318-319
_Rochefort, Sires de_, 79
Rochefort-en-Montague, Chateau de, 252-253
_Rochefort-Lucay Family_, 253
_Rochette Family, De la_, 239, 274
_Rollin, Nicolas_, 129, 142, 144
Romanée-Conti, 136-138
Romans, 321-323
Romenay, 177
Rouge, Chateau, 287
_Rousseau, Jean Jacques_, 65, 229, 234-237, 245, 262, 265, 277
_Rude_, 4, 135
_Sade, Marquis de_, 283
Saint Antoine, 319-320
_Saint-Beauve_, 114
Saint Béninge, 103
_Saint Bernard_, 45
Saint Bernard, Chateau de, 262
Saint-Bonnet-de-Joux, 154
Sainte Croix, 323-324
Saint Donat, 253, 256-257
Saint Fargeau, 6, 27-28
_Saint Ferreol Family_, 224
_Saint François-de-Sales_, 271
Saint Gengoux, 173
Saint Gingolph, 266
Saint Jean-de-Losne, 190
Saint Laurent, 219
Saint Marcellin, 218, 315-316, 319
Saint Michel de Maurienne, 238
Saint Nicholas-les-Citeaux, 139
Saint Pierre d'Albigny, 283
Saint-Pont, 166-168
Saint Rambert, 293
Saint Seine, 109
Saint Trivier-de-Courtes, 177
Saint Vallier, 292, 320
Saint Véran, 309
_Saint Vorles, Canons of_, 77
_Sales, Comte Louis de_, 261
_Salins, Guignonne de_, 142
_Sambin, Hugues_, 4, 124, 125-126
_Sarcus, Comtesse de_, 69
_Sarto, Andrea del_, 74
Sassenage, 253-254
Saulieu, 5, 57-60
_Saulx-Tavannes, Maréchal de_, 149
_Savace Family, De_, 54
Savegny-sous-Beaune, 145
Savoigny, Chateau de, 69
Savoy, 2, 14, 15, 16, 102, 199, 215,
216-217, 223, 229-244, 245, 252, 264, 266, 278-289, 306
_Savoy, House of_, 177, 180,
201, 203, 210, 213, 215, 216, 227, 229-234, 239,
240, 243, 251, 252, 260, 263, 268, 270, 271, 281, 285, 288
Sciez, 268
_Ségur, Pierre de_, 195
Semur-en-Brionnais, 156-157
Semur-en-Auxois, 36, 50-53, 56, 62
Sennonais, The, 19, 29, 84
Sens, 5, 14, 20, 21
_Serlio_, 25
Seruin, The, 34, 43
_Sève, Jean de_, 181
_Sévigné, Mme. de_, 6, 53-56, 59, 69, 72
_Short, Frank_, 164
_Sigismond, Emperor_, 215, 232
_Sluter, Claus_, 127
Sone, Chateau de la, 320-321
_Soufflot_, 34
_Souvre, Anne de_, 95
_Stendhal_, 191, 247
_Sue, Eugene_, 262
Sully, Chateau de, 149-150
_Sully Family_, 147, 281
Taine, 263
Tanlay, Chateau de, 16, 86-93, 96, 98
_Tapffer_, 273
Tarentaise, The, 286-288, 303, 304
_Tavannes Family_, 149-150
_Terrail Family_, 250-251
Terreaux-à-Verostres, 154
_Thil Family, De_, 54
_Thévenin Family_, 88
Thodure, 314
_Thoire et Villars, Sires de_, 201
Thoissey, 178-179
Thoisy-la-Berchere, 60
Thone, 264
Thonon-les-Bains, 268-270, 271, 272, 273
Thoron, Manoir de, 264
_Thorwaldsen_, 194
Toisé, 174-175
Touches, 173
Touges, 267
Tour de Fonbonne, 275
Tour-de-Pin, 17, 246
Tour, Manoir de la, 264-265
_Tour, Quentin de la_, 236
Tour Sans Venin, 254-255
Tour, Villa de la, 262
Tournette, 263
Tournus, 5, 162, 175-176
Trévoux, 5, 180, 181-184
Tonnerre, 20, 29, 35, 84-86, 93, 99
_Tonnerre Family_, 30, 33, 84, 93, 94, 95, 98
_Tremouille Family, De la_, 54
Troches, Chateau de, 268
_Turner_, 164
_Urban III_, 241
Uriage, 224-225
_Uzes, Ducs de_, 299
Valbonne, 215
Valence, 247, 293, 295-298
_Valentinian, Emperor_, 102
_Valois, Jeanne de_, 25
_Valois, Philippe de_, 218, 291, 292, 322
Val-Romey, 199, 201, 206
_Varambon, Sire de_, 183
_Vatel Family_, 59
Vauban, Chateau de, 48-49
_Vauban, Maréchal_, 34, 46-49, 187, 191, 192, 223, 308
_Vaucanson_, 320
Vergy, Chateau de, 139
Vermanton, 5
Vezelay, 36, 44-46
_Vibrave Family_, 48
Vienne, 290-295, 314, 324
_Vienne, Archbishops of_, 275
_Vienne, Comtes de_, 218, 291, 293
_Vienne, Guy of_ (see _Calixtus II_)
Villaines-en-Dumois, 66-67
_Villars, Sires de_, 180
Villeneuve-sur-Yonne, 21-25
Villefranche, 181-182
Vireville, 314
Vizille, Chateau de, 214, 225-228, 300, 312
_Voltaire_, 52, 56, 204-205
_Warens, Mme. de_, 229, 236
_Werve, Claus de_, 127
_Whymper_, 301
Wurtemburgs, Chateau of the, 195-196
_Young, Arthur_, 8, 236
Yvoire, 268
_Zinzerling_, 7
_Zizim_, 318-319
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Typographical errors corrected by the etext transcriber:
Forêz et Beaujolais, pour l'annee=> Forêz et Beaujolais, pour l'année
{pg 5}
Le Fidele Conducteur=> Le Fidèle Conducteur {pg 6}
mon nom mes mes=> mon nom mes {pg 46}
francherait d'un bond=> franchirait d'un bond {pg 82}
distict pavillon=> distict pavillion {pg 90}
D'ou sont sortis=> D'où sont sortis {pg 101}
hôtels privées=> hôtels privés {pg 128}
restaurants mondaines=> restaurants mondains {pg 135}
toutes les facons=> toutes les façons {pg 151}
En tout pays ou vent vente=> En tout pays où vent vente {pg 158}
rez-de-Chausée=> rez-de-Chaussée {pg 160}
ce spectacle l'ecrase=> ce spectacle l'écrase {pg 166}
rez-de-chaussêe=> rez-de-chaussée {pg 194}
la Principaute de Dombes=> la Principauté de Dombes {pg 199}
Mias viv' Macon pour beir=> Mias viv' Mâcon pour beir {pg 200}
chateaux débout=> chateaux debout {pg 269}
surounded by=> surrounded by {pg 224}
comem si l'on=> comme si l'on {pg 234}
rendezvous de chasse=> rendez-vous de chasse {pg 256}
Route Imperiale=> Route Impériale {pg 286}
said the Marechal to his king=> said the Maréchal to his king {pg 288}
guerilla warfare=> guerrilla warfare {pg 311}