. Castles and chateaux of old Burgundy and the border provinces. lations with the province,for it was then that it came first to be appliedto that glorious mountain region of France ly-ing between the high Alpine valleys and theshores of the Mediterranean. The Dauphin, Humbert II, first establishedthe Parlement du Dauphine at Saint Marcellinin 1337, but within three years it was trans- 218 Grenoble and Vizille 219 ferred to Grenoble, where it held rank as thirdamong the provincial parliaments of France. Saint Laurent, the Grenoble suburb, not themountain town hidden away in the fastness ofthe
. Castles and chateaux of old Burgundy and the border provinces. lations with the province,for it was then that it came first to be appliedto that glorious mountain region of France ly-ing between the high Alpine valleys and theshores of the Mediterranean. The Dauphin, Humbert II, first establishedthe Parlement du Dauphine at Saint Marcellinin 1337, but within three years it was trans- 218 Grenoble and Vizille 219 ferred to Grenoble, where it held rank as thirdamong the provincial parliaments of France. Saint Laurent, the Grenoble suburb, not themountain town hidden away in the fastness ofthe mountainmassif of theChartreuse, oc-cupies the siteof an ancientGaulish founda-tion called Cu-laro. Its namewas laterchanged to Gra-tianopolis, outof complimentto the EmperorGratian, whichin time evolveditself into Gren-oble, the capitalof the goodprovince of ourmost loyal Dauphin. Grenobles chief architectural treasure is itspresent Palais de Justice, the ancient buildingsof the old Parliament of Dauphiny and itsCoTir des Comptes. Virtually it is a chateau of. .mi m Toorclle I Palais I oifeTustrce |GrENOBIoE ) 220 Castles and Chateaux of Old Burgundy state and is, moreover, the most importantmonument of the French Eenaissance existingin the Ehone valley. Begun under Louis XI,it was terminated under Francois Premier,when, following upon the Italian wars, it wasa place of sojourn for the kings of France. On entering the portal at the right one comesdirectly to the Chambre du Tribunal of to-day,its walls panelled with a wonderful series ofwood-carvings coming from the ancient Courdes Comptes, the work of a German sculptor,Paul Jude, in 1520. The portal to the left leads to the CourdAppel — the Chambres des Audiences Solen-nelles — whose ceiling was designed in 1660 byJean Lepautre, a great decorative artist of thecourt of Louis XIV, and carved by one Guille-baud, a native of Grenoble. The ancient chapel,or such of it as remains, where the parliamentheard mass, is reached thro
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