. Castles and chateaux of old Burgundy and the border provinces. sur-Seez, in the Tarentaise,there existed, in the seventeenth century, a sortof a monkish chateau, at least it was a purelysecular dwelling, a sort of retreat for the Canonof the Hospice of Saint Bernard. It was builtin 1673 by the Canon Ducloz, and though allbut the tower has disappeared, history tellsmuch of the luxury and comfort which oncefound a place here in this Logement du Mountain Background of Savoy 289 Vicar. The tower rises five stories in heightand contains a heavy staircase lighted on eachlanding by a single window.
. Castles and chateaux of old Burgundy and the border provinces. sur-Seez, in the Tarentaise,there existed, in the seventeenth century, a sortof a monkish chateau, at least it was a purelysecular dwelling, a sort of retreat for the Canonof the Hospice of Saint Bernard. It was builtin 1673 by the Canon Ducloz, and though allbut the tower has disappeared, history tellsmuch of the luxury and comfort which oncefound a place here in this Logement du Mountain Background of Savoy 289 Vicar. The tower rises five stories in heightand contains a heavy staircase lighted on eachlanding by a single window. From this onejudges that the tower must have been intendedas a defence or last refuge for the dwellers inthe chateau in case they were attacked by ban-dits or other evil doers. On arriving at thefinal floor, the walls are pierced with ten win-dows. A carven tablet reproduced herewithtells as much of the actual history of the toweras is known. PIOC . OPVS F. F. R . D . LOSS DVCLOT CUBEENATOR DOM US . SATI BERNARDI 16 -\- 73 CHAPTER XX BY THE BANKS OF THE EHONE. The boundarybetween D a u -phiny and Pro-vence was by nomeans vague; it?was a well de-fined territoriallimit, but in theold days, as withthose of the pres-ent, the climaticand topographic limits between the two regionswere not so readily defined. The Rhone, themightiest of French rivers when measured bythe force and, at times, the bulk of its current,played a momentous historic part in the devel-opment of all the region lying within its water-shed, and for that reason the cities lying mid-way upon its banks had much intercourse onewith another. Vienne, on the left bank of this swift-flowing 290 By the Banks of the Rhone 291 river, was the capital of the Counts of the Vien-nois, and the birthplace of the earliest of the^ native Dauphins, who afterwards trans-ferred their seat of power to Grenoble. Forthis reason it is obvious that the history ofVienne and that of the surrounding territorywas intimately bound up with the l
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