. Castles and chateaux of old Burgundy and the border provinces. history, though widely dis-similar were their stations. An ornate park with various decorative de-pendencies surrounds the old chateau on threesides and the ensemble is as undeniably theatri-cal as one could hope to find in the real. Ingeneral the aspect is grandiose and it can read-ily enough be counted as one of the show-chateaux of France, and would be were itbetter known. Mile, de Montpensier — Ma Grande Made-moiselle — was chatelaine of Saint Fargeauin the mid-seventeenth century. Her comingsand goings, to and from Paris, we
. Castles and chateaux of old Burgundy and the border provinces. history, though widely dis-similar were their stations. An ornate park with various decorative de-pendencies surrounds the old chateau on threesides and the ensemble is as undeniably theatri-cal as one could hope to find in the real. Ingeneral the aspect is grandiose and it can read-ily enough be counted as one of the show-chateaux of France, and would be were itbetter known. Mile, de Montpensier — Ma Grande Made-moiselle — was chatelaine of Saint Fargeauin the mid-seventeenth century. Her comingsand goings, to and from Paris, were ever writ-ten down at length in court chronicles and manywere the incidents — to give them a milddefinition — which happened here in the valleyof the Yonne which made good reading. Onone occasion when Mademoiselle quitted Parisfor Saint Fargeau she came in a modest ca-rosse sans armes. It was for a fact a sortof sub-rosa sortie, but the historian was discreeton this occasion. Travel in the old days hadnot a little of romanticism about it, but for a. ?^1 55CO O In the Valley of the Yonne 29 lady of quality to travel thus was, at the time,a thing unheard of. This princess of bloodroyal thus, for once in her life, travelled like aplebeian. Closely bound up with the Sennonais were thefiefs of Auxerre and Tonnerre, whose capitalsare to-day of that class of important provincialcities of the third rank which play so great apart in the economic affairs of modern their present commercial status should byno means discount their historic pasts, nor theircharm for the lover of old monuments, sinceevidences remain at every street corner to re-mind one that their origin was in the days whenknights were bold. The railway has since come,followed by electric lights and automobiles, allof which are once and again found in curiousjuxtaposition with a bit of mediaeval or Eenais-sance architecture, in a manner that is surpris-ing if not shocking. Eegardless of the apparentmode
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