Days near Paris . ough there is a good road ofi2>^. (omnibus) to— 96 k. Pierrefonds (Hotels, des Bains, prettily situated;des Riiines, good, less pretentious j dii Chateau; desEtrangers). One may dine at the Restaurant du Lac,which has a lovely view of the lake and the opposite hill,with every variety of forest green, and pink houses emerg-ing from it. Pierrefonds is much frequented for itsmineral waters, useful for rheumatism and throat affec-tions ; but of world-wide celebrity from its magnificent PIERREFONDS ^Zl chateau, one of the finest existing fortresses of the middleages. The origin
Days near Paris . ough there is a good road ofi2>^. (omnibus) to— 96 k. Pierrefonds (Hotels, des Bains, prettily situated;des Riiines, good, less pretentious j dii Chateau; desEtrangers). One may dine at the Restaurant du Lac,which has a lovely view of the lake and the opposite hill,with every variety of forest green, and pink houses emerg-ing from it. Pierrefonds is much frequented for itsmineral waters, useful for rheumatism and throat affec-tions ; but of world-wide celebrity from its magnificent PIERREFONDS ^Zl chateau, one of the finest existing fortresses of the middleages. The original castle dated from the XI. c, but thiswas replaced by the existing chateau (i398-1406) by theDue dOrleans (brother of Charles VI.), who was assas-sinated in Paris by Jean sans Peur, in 1407. It was fre-quently besieged by the English and bravely defendedagainst them. In 1588 it became the refuge of a band ofbrigands under the command of the brave Rieux, vainlybesieged here by the Due dEpernon and afterwards by. PIERREFONDS. the Marechal de Biron, but eventually taken whilst pre-paring to attack some public carriages, and hanged atCompiegne. Under Louis XIII. the castle was com-manded by one Villeneuve, who pillaged the country muchas Rieux had done. He was besieged by Charles deValois, Comte dAuvergne, and the castle was dismantledby Richelieu. During the Revolution the ruins were soldfor8,Toofr. In 1813 they were purchased by NapoleonI., and their restoration was begun in 1858 under VioUet-le-Duc and carried out through twenty-eight years at the 234 DA YS NEAR PARIS expense of the State, the vast works being rendered com-paratively easy owning to the neighborhood of quarries ofthe right kind of stone. Now the magnificent chateau isas complete as when it was finished in the XIV. c, every-thing ancient having been carefully preserved and the oldlines strictly followed out. The castle is open daily to thepublic, who are shown over it by warders, in large parties. The chateau
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