. Castles and chateaux of old Burgundy and the border provinces. ng many proprietors, butthe two great square pavilions joined togetheroriginally gave the Clos that distinctive aspectwhich, in no small measure, it retains unto thisday. Taken as a whole, it still possesses aproud mediaeval aspect, though the modernporte-cochere, an iron gate which looks asthough it was manufactured yesterday in SouthChicago — and perhaps was — somewhat dis-counts this. Years ago, when the Clos Vougeotwas the nucleus of the many Vougeots of to-day, the grapes passed entirely through thewine-presses of the monks,
. Castles and chateaux of old Burgundy and the border provinces. ng many proprietors, butthe two great square pavilions joined togetheroriginally gave the Clos that distinctive aspectwhich, in no small measure, it retains unto thisday. Taken as a whole, it still possesses aproud mediaeval aspect, though the modernporte-cochere, an iron gate which looks asthough it was manufactured yesterday in SouthChicago — and perhaps was — somewhat dis-counts this. Years ago, when the Clos Vougeotwas the nucleus of the many Vougeots of to-day, the grapes passed entirely through thewine-presses of the monks, who reserved theproduct entire to be used as presents to Popesand Princes. Thus Clos Vougeot was the modelfor all other ambitious, monastic vineyards,and those mediseval monks who excelled allothers of their time as wine-growers were thelogical inheritors of that Latin genius of an-tiquity which gave so much attention to thearts of agriculture. Hard by Vougeot is Romanee-Conti, first cele-brated under the ancient regime when the court- In the Cote dOr 137. 138 Castles and Chateaux of Old Burgundy physician, Fagon, ordered its wine as a stim-ulant for the jaded forces of Louis XIV, a cir-cumstance which practically developed a warbetween the wine growers of Champagne andBurgundy, with a victory for the Cote dOr, aswas proper. To-day we are backsliders, and^ champagne has again become fashionablewith kings, emperors and the nouveau riche. The property known as Eomanee-Conti hasbeen thus known since the Revolution, whenthis princely family of royal blood came intopossession thereof. The old abbey is to-day, inpart, turned into a beet-sugar factory, its thou-sand brothers and sisters now giving place toworking men and women of the twentieth cen-tury, less picturesque and less faithful to theirvocation, without doubt. Moulin-a-Vent was another of the near-byproperties of the Citeaux monks, and to-daypreserves the great colombier, or pigeon-house,as all may note who travel these
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