. Castles and chateaux of old Burgundy and the border provinces. --—-^^^^i -I. Hotel de Ville, Paray4e-Monail y Macon, Cluny and the Charollais 157 windows, as if for defence rather than as ameans of letting light and air within. ? This is some ancient historic monument, nodoubt? you query of some passing to be precise he answers: Yes, a is all the information you can get beneathits shadow, but you are content and go yourway. It fulfils exactly your idea of what a me-diaeval donjon should be, and what it lacks inapparent authenticated history can be readilyenough imagine
. Castles and chateaux of old Burgundy and the border provinces. --—-^^^^i -I. Hotel de Ville, Paray4e-Monail y Macon, Cluny and the Charollais 157 windows, as if for defence rather than as ameans of letting light and air within. ? This is some ancient historic monument, nodoubt? you query of some passing to be precise he answers: Yes, a is all the information you can get beneathits shadow, but you are content and go yourway. It fulfils exactly your idea of what a me-diaeval donjon should be, and what it lacks inapparent authenticated history can be readilyenough imagined by anyone with a predilectionfor such musings. Leaving the Charollais and the Brionnais,one turns toward Macon by the gateway ofCluny. Mediaevalism here is rampant in mem-ory, song and story, though the monuments areunfamiliar ones. It is an echo of the dayswhen abbots and priors were often barons, andbarons were magistrates who held the keys oflife and death over other of mankind. Thesewere the days, too, when the Pope was the realruler of many a kingdom with another t
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