. Castles and chateaux of old Burgundy and the border provinces. Conflans Mountain Background of Savoy 287 the old town high on a rocky promontory, witha picturesque citadel-fortress filled with sou-venirs of warlike times. The Chateau du Manuel flanks the old for-tress on one side, and the garrison barracks ofto-day was at one time an old convent of Ber-nardins. This structure of itself is enough, andmore, to attract one thither. It is built of redbrick, with a range of curiously patterned twinwindows. Besides these attributes the fau-bourg has also the Chateau Rouge, another ofthe resting pl
. Castles and chateaux of old Burgundy and the border provinces. Conflans Mountain Background of Savoy 287 the old town high on a rocky promontory, witha picturesque citadel-fortress filled with sou-venirs of warlike times. The Chateau du Manuel flanks the old for-tress on one side, and the garrison barracks ofto-day was at one time an old convent of Ber-nardins. This structure of itself is enough, andmore, to attract one thither. It is built of redbrick, with a range of curiously patterned twinwindows. Besides these attributes the fau-bourg has also the Chateau Rouge, another ofthe resting places of the Savoyan dukes. The historic souvenirs of Conflans and itschateau are many and momentous. It defendedthe entrance to the Tarentaise, and was able toresist the terrible battering sieges of the troopsof Frangois Premier and Henri IV, which wasmore than Miolans could do, in spite of the factthat it was supposedly a more efficient strong-hold. The town itself was erected into a Principal-ity in favour of the Archbishops of the Taren-taise, and in 1814,
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