. Castles and chateaux of old Burgundy and the border provinces. ryears been the cause of so much misery andmisfortune. The place had been the culmina-tive point of the attacks of centuries of war-riors, and the inhabitants believed that they hadso suffered that it was time to cry quits. When the surrender, or the turning over,of the castle took place, all the population,including women and children, marched enmasse upon the structure, and wall by wall andstone by stone dismantled it, leaving it in thecondition one sees it to-day. A castle of sortsstill exists, but it is a mere wraith of its f
. Castles and chateaux of old Burgundy and the border provinces. ryears been the cause of so much misery andmisfortune. The place had been the culmina-tive point of the attacks of centuries of war-riors, and the inhabitants believed that they hadso suffered that it was time to cry quits. When the surrender, or the turning over,of the castle took place, all the population,including women and children, marched enmasse upon the structure, and wall by wall andstone by stone dismantled it, leaving it in thecondition one sees it to-day. A castle of sortsstill exists, but it is a mere wraith of its formerself. There is this much to say for it, however,and that is that its stern, grim walls which stillstand remain as silent witnesses to the fact thatit was not despoiled from without but demol-ished from within. Peace came soon after, andthe people in submitting to the new regimewould not hear of the rebuilding of the chateau,and so for three hundred years its batteredwalls and blank windows have stood the stressesof rigorous winters and broiling summers, a. Chateau des Dues, Chdtillon Chastillon au Noble Due 77 silent and conspicuous monument to the rightsof the people. The majestic tower of the chateau, for some-thing more than the mere outline of the ground-plan still exists, is bound to two others by avery considerable expanse of wall of the don-jon, and by the courtines which formerly joinedthe bastions with the main structure. The suggestion of the ample inner court isstill there, and the foundations of still two othertowers, as well as various ruined walls. Aneighbouring edifice, the buildings formerly oc-cupied by the Canons of Saint Vorles, is inex-plicably intermingled with the ruins of the cha-teau in a way that makes it difficult to tell whereone leaves off and the other begins. The chevetof the Eglise de Saint Vorles and its church-yard also intermingle with the confines of thechateau in an extraordinary manner. To saythe least, the juxtaposition of things secul
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