The fields of France / with twenty illustrations in color . ?n ?i J I 1. I! S ; A I A LITTLE TOUR IN PROVENCE feet. It stood twelve metres in height. It had thirty-fivetowers, many turrets, was crowned with battlements, andpierced with machicolations. These last, as every oneknows, are open spaces left between the wall and the friezeof arcades which supports the balcony intended for thegarrison (the chemin de ronde), spaces which form greatoblong holes in the flooring of the balcony, and throughwhich boiling water, flaming tow, lighted oil, arrows, stones,and other missiles might be poured
The fields of France / with twenty illustrations in color . ?n ?i J I 1. I! S ; A I A LITTLE TOUR IN PROVENCE feet. It stood twelve metres in height. It had thirty-fivetowers, many turrets, was crowned with battlements, andpierced with machicolations. These last, as every oneknows, are open spaces left between the wall and the friezeof arcades which supports the balcony intended for thegarrison (the chemin de ronde), spaces which form greatoblong holes in the flooring of the balcony, and throughwhich boiling water, flaming tow, lighted oil, arrows, stones,and other missiles might be poured down on assailantsengaged in undermining the foot of the wall. The wallsof Avignon, substantial as they appeared, would have beenbut a phantasmal protection against a good mitrailleuse: themodern town wore them as an ornament, and not as gates, dismantled of their old portcullises, served forthe collection of the toll, and the officials of the oct^oilodged in the romantic gatehouses. One of these guardians,moved by our interest in his unusual dwelling, led
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