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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Veyle et Pont-de-Vaux,Saint Trivier at RomenoSont quaV villes bien renommo ;Mias viv Macon pour beirEt Bourg pour mangi. Bresse, more than any other of the subdivi-sions of mediseval and modern France, is en-dowed with renown for the sobriety and purityof the life of its people; and family ties are* respectable and respected, as the sayinggoes. Above all has this been notably true ofthe nobility, who were ever looked up to withlove and pride by those of lower stations.Among the common people never has one beenfound to willingly ally himself, or herself, withanother family who might have a blot on itsescutcheon. The marriage vow and its usagesare simple but devout, and in addition to theusual observations the peasant husband grants,as a part of the marriage contract, a blackdress to be worn at Toussaint and the Jour desMortes, and to all family mourning celebra-tions. If a widow or widower seeks anotherpartner the event is celebrated by a ball — forwhich the doubly wedded party pays.
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Women of Br esse On the Swiss Border 201 The village fetes of Bresse, still continued inmany an out-of-the-way little town, are theusual drinking and dancing festins of the comicopera merry-making variety. They are simpleand proper enough exhibitions, and never de-scend to the freedom of speech and mannersthat such exhibitions often do in the Midi. None more than Brillat-Savarin has carriedthe fame of Bresse abroad. A one-time mem-ber of the Cour de Cassation, he perhaps wasbetter known to the world at large as the fatherof gastronomy in France. His Psychologiede Gout, if nothing else, would warrant givingMm this title. Val-Eomey — the Vallis Eomana of the Em-perors— and Bugey had for overlords theSires de Thoire et Villars. It, too, came in timeto the Dues de Savoie, by gift and by heritage,and also was ceded in 1601 to Henri IV, by vir-tue of the Treaty of Lyons. Dombes, principality in little, although atfirst a part of the kingdom of Burgundy, laterfell by favour of circumstan

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