CHAPTER XXII

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

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}