Castles and chateaux of old Burgundy and the border provinces (1909) (14784029262)

Identifier: castleschateauxo00mans (find matches)
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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whichsuggest some of the decorative splendour whichthe building one day possessed. In spite of itsfragmentary condition the ruin of the Chateaude Bourget is one of the most romantically dis-posed souvenirs of its era in Savoy, and onemay well echo the words of a local poet who haspraised it with all sincerity. 0 lac, te souvient-il ••. . des heaux jours du vieux castel. The chronicles, too, have much to say of thebrilliant succession of seigneurs who came tovisit the Comtes de Savoie here in their wild-wood retreat, a line of counts as noble, richand powerful as sovereigns of kingdoms. The sepulchre of the Savoyan counts in theold Abbey of Hautecombe must naturally forma part of any pilgrimage to the neighbouringchateau. For no reason whatever can it be neg-lected by the visitor to these parts, the less soby the chateau-worshipper just because it is areligious foundation. It is in fact the mauso-leum of the princes of the house of Savoy.Within its walls are buried various members
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Abbey of Hautecombe Chamlbery 241 of the dynasty who would have made of it theValhalla of their time. H est un coin de terre, au pied dune montagneQue baigne le lac du Bourget Hautecombe ! port calme ! 0 royal monastere IAbri des Jils de Saint Bernard. At the extreme northerly end of the Lac duBourget is the ancient Manoir de Chatillon, sit-ting high on an isolated and wooded hillsideabove the gently lapping waters, and in fullview of the snow-capped mountains of the Al-pine chain to the eastward. Here was born, towards the end of the twelfthcentury, Geoffroi de Chatillon, son of Jean deChatillon and Cassandra Cribelli, sister of PopeUrban III. In every way the edifice is anideally picturesque one, as much so because ofits site and its historical foundation. As anarchitectural glory it is a melange of manysorts, with scarce a definite aesthetic attribute.It is as an historical guide-post that it appearsin its best light. Its chief deity, Geoffroi, be-came a canon and chancellor of the