. Castles and chateaux of old Burgundy and the border provinces. other, is indeed re-markable. Two of its great rooms have beencelebrated for centuries among art-lovers andexperts, the Chambre des Fleurs, with its elab-orately panelled ceiling, and that of PastorFido, whose walls show eight great paintingsdepicting the scenes of a pastoral Chambre du Cardinal contains a portraitof Eichelieu, and the Chambre des Arts is gar-nished most ornately throughout. The mono-grams and devises of the ceiling of the Chambredes Fleurs suggest the various alliances of theClermonts, but the painte
. Castles and chateaux of old Burgundy and the border provinces. other, is indeed re-markable. Two of its great rooms have beencelebrated for centuries among art-lovers andexperts, the Chambre des Fleurs, with its elab-orately panelled ceiling, and that of PastorFido, whose walls show eight great paintingsdepicting the scenes of a pastoral Chambre du Cardinal contains a portraitof Eichelieu, and the Chambre des Arts is gar-nished most ornately throughout. The mono-grams and devises of the ceiling of the Chambredes Fleurs suggest the various alliances of theClermonts, but the painted arms are those of 98 Castles and Chateaux of Old Burgundy the Louvois, who substituted their own marquefor that of the Clermonts wherever it couldreadily be done. The present Marquis de Clermont-Tonnerrehas ably restored the chateau of his ancestorsand put the family arms for the great partback where they belong. His arms are as fol-lows: ^ De gueules aux deux clefs dargent ensautoir avec la tiare pour cimier. The mottois Etsi omnes ego non. These arms were. Monograms from the Chamhre des Fleurs originally conceded to Sibaut II de Clermontby Pope Calixtus II in recognition of his hav-ing chased the Anti-Pope Gregoire VIII fromEome in 1120. In the Salle des Empereurs Remains are aseries of paintings of Roman Emperors whichmakes one think that Tanlays sculpturedRoman busts must have set the fashion here-abouts or vice versa. Tonnerre, Tanlay and Ancy-le-Franc 99 The Bibliotheque contains a remarkable folioshowing plans and views of the chateaux ofAncy-le-Franc and Tonnerre, the latter sincedestroyed as we have found. In the Chapel, dedicated to Sainte Cecile, area series of admirable painted panels of the apos-tles and prophets, a favourite religious decora-tive motif in these parts, as one readily recallsby noting the Puits de Moise and the tomb ofthe Burgundian dukes at Dijon, the inspirationdoubtless of all other similar works since. The Grand Salon of to-day was once thesle
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