. Castles and chateaux of old Burgundy and the border provinces. erywhere for the automobilist, and the mainlines of railway crossing France to Italy givean accessibility and comfortable manner ofapproach which is not excelled by the region ofthe Swiss and Italian lakes themselves. Annecy, the metropolis of these parts, has anold chateau that is much better conserved thanthat of Chambery so far as the presentation ofit as a whole is concerned. It is more nearly aperfect unit, and less of a conglomerate restora-tion than the former. The Chateau dAnnecy was the ancient resi-dence of the Comtes d
. Castles and chateaux of old Burgundy and the border provinces. erywhere for the automobilist, and the mainlines of railway crossing France to Italy givean accessibility and comfortable manner ofapproach which is not excelled by the region ofthe Swiss and Italian lakes themselves. Annecy, the metropolis of these parts, has anold chateau that is much better conserved thanthat of Chambery so far as the presentation ofit as a whole is concerned. It is more nearly aperfect unit, and less of a conglomerate restora-tion than the former. The Chateau dAnnecy was the ancient resi-dence of the Comtes de Genevois, but in 1401the seigniory passed to the house of de Geneve, known to ecclesiastical his-tory as Pope Clement VII, the first of the Avi-gnon Popes, was born here in 1342. The military history of the Chateau dAn-necy is intimately bound up with that of thetown because of the fact that as a matter of pro-tection the first settlement grouped itself con-fidingly around the walls which sheltered theseigneurial presence. Populace and the guar-. Annecy and Lac Leman 261 dians of the chateau together were thus enabledto throw off the troops which turned back onAnnecy after the defeat at Conflans in 1537, butno resistance whatever was made to Henri IVand his followers, who entered without a blowbeing dealt, and found the inhabitants, agree-able and warm of welcome. This was perhapsa matter of mood; it might not have so hap-pened the day before or the day after, buttheir cordiality was certainly to the credit of allconcerned from a humane point of view, what-ever devotees of the war-game may think. In 1630 Comte Louis de Sales commanded thechateau when the Marechal de Chatillonmarched against it. The besieged made a stifffight and only capitulated after being able tomake such terms as practically turned defeatinto victory. On the morrow the Comte deSales escorted his troops to the Chateau deConflans, with all the honours of war. After a brilliant career of centurie
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