. Castles and chateaux of old Burgundy and the border provinces. ors and society. TheCouncil of Bale of 1439 sent the CardinaldAries and twenty-five prelates to offer theself-deposed monarch the papal crown. Theattractions of the position, or the inducementsoffered, were seemingly too great to be resisted,and, as Felix V, he was made Pontiff in theEiglise de Ripaille in the same year. Soon the cramped quarters of the chateauand all the town were filled with a splendidpageant of ambassadors, prelates and digni-taries. All were anxious to salute in personthe new head of the Church. France, Engla
. Castles and chateaux of old Burgundy and the border provinces. ors and society. TheCouncil of Bale of 1439 sent the CardinaldAries and twenty-five prelates to offer theself-deposed monarch the papal crown. Theattractions of the position, or the inducementsoffered, were seemingly too great to be resisted,and, as Felix V, he was made Pontiff in theEiglise de Ripaille in the same year. Soon the cramped quarters of the chateauand all the town were filled with a splendidpageant of ambassadors, prelates and digni-taries. All were anxious to salute in personthe new head of the Church. France, England,Castile, the Swiss Cantons, Austria, Bohemia,Savoy and Piedmont recognized the new Pope,but the rest of Christendom remained faithfulto Eugene IV, Ripaille and Thonon receivedsuch an influx of celebrities as it had neverknown before, nor since. The towered and buttressed walls remain inevidence to-day,- but within all is hollow as asepulchre. The great portal by which onepassed from the chapel to the dwelling is mon-umental from every point of view. What it. Chateau de Ripaille Annecy and Lac Leman 273 lacks in arcMtectural excellence it makes upin its imposing proportions, and moreover pos-sesses an individual note which is rare in mod-ern works of a similar nature. The chief centre after Thonon, going east,is Eivian, with which most travellers in Franceare familiar only as a name on the label on thebottle of the most excellent mineral water onsale in the hotels and restaurants. The EaudVivian is about the only table water uni-versally sold in Europe that isnt fizzy, andis accordingly popular — and expensive. ]£vian, sitting snug under the flank of MontBenant, a four thousand foot peak, its shorefront dotted with little latteen-rigged, swallow-sailed boats is the Biarritz de Lac Leman,but a Biarritz framed with a luxuriant vegeta-tion, whereas its Basque prototype is, in thisrespect, its antithesis. Twenty thousand visitors come to l^vian for the waters each year now, bu
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