. Castles and chateaux of old Burgundy and the border provinces. stance is authenticated in spite of thefantastic orthography. As a letter writer, atany rate, she made no such faults. Nos plaisirs ne sont capparenceEt souvent se cache nos pleursSous r eclat de ces belles JleursQui ne sont que vaine eperance. The Chateau de Bourbilly, where Madame deSevigne was really bound at the time she lin-gered on ches son cJier seigneur/ is a nearneighbour of Epoisses. It was the retreat ofMadame de Chantal, the ancestress of Madamede Sevigne, the founder of the Order of theVisitation who has since become
. Castles and chateaux of old Burgundy and the border provinces. stance is authenticated in spite of thefantastic orthography. As a letter writer, atany rate, she made no such faults. Nos plaisirs ne sont capparenceEt souvent se cache nos pleursSous r eclat de ces belles JleursQui ne sont que vaine eperance. The Chateau de Bourbilly, where Madame deSevigne was really bound at the time she lin-gered on ches son cJier seigneur/ is a nearneighbour of Epoisses. It was the retreat ofMadame de Chantal, the ancestress of Madamede Sevigne, the founder of the Order of theVisitation who has since become a saint of thechurch calendar — Sainte Jeanne-de-Chantal. This fine seventeenth century chateau, withits pointed towers and its mansard, belongedsuccessively to the families Marigny, de Mello,de Thil, de Savace, de la Tremouille and Eabu-tin-Chantel, of which the sanctified Jeanne andMadame de Sevigne were the most illustriousmembers. Madame de Sevigne, the amiable letterwriter, sojourned here often on her voyages upand down France. She herself lived in the. Semur-en-Auxois, Epoisses, Bourbilly 55 Chateau des Eochers in Brittany and herdaughter, the Comtesse de Grignan, in Pro-vence, and they did not a little visiting betweenthe two. Bourbilly was a convenient and de-lightful halfway house. Madame de Sevigne can not be said to havemade Bourbilly her residence for long at anytime. For a fact she was as frequently a guestat the neighbouring Chateau de Guitant, afeudal dwelling still inhabited by the de Gui-tants, or at Epoisses, as she was at Bourbilly. In the chapel, which is of the sixteenth cen-tury, is the tomb of the Baron de Bussy-Eabutinand some reliques of latter has served to make of Bourbilly apilgrim shrine which, on the 21st August, drawsa throng from all parts for the annual fete. There was a popular impression long currentamong French writers that Madame de Sevignewas born in the Chateau de Bourbilly. A lineor two of that indefatigabl
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