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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e Tarentaise ranclose along by the base of the chateau. There are four distinct ruined elements to-day from which one may build up anew thesilhouette of this mediaeval stronghold. Chieflythese elements have been crumbled by stressof time, but here and there a reminder moredefinite in form, a gaunt finger of stone, pointsskyward, ■— a battery of them in fact surroundthe actual donjon. The bridge on which the Roman road crossedthe Durance was fortified, but was built ofwood brought from the neighbouring mountainsides. It is supposed that the present stonestructure is the direct successor of this woodenbridge, though it possesses the antique lookwhich may well claim a thousand years. Ay-mon, the Seigneur de Briangon, when occupy-ing the donjon on the heights, committed manyextortions for toll on travellers passing thisway. It was a sort of scandalous graft of theeleventh century which finally induced Hera-clius, Archbishop of the Tarentaise, to petition ..-e ■i^^-*iv«»^T *•-»/
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Chateau de Briancon In the Alps of Dauphiny 305 Humbert II, the overlord, Comte de Maurienne,to call his brother lord to a more reasonablemethod of procedure. This was to the Comtede Mauriennes liking, for he fell upon himtooth and nail and drove Aymon from his castle,leaving it in the ruined and dismantled condi-tion in which it stands to-day.

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