. Castles and chateaux of old Burgundy and the border provinces. nd chateaux it contains only the scantiestof memories. Down by the river, at the terminus of the uglywire-rope suspension bridge, the modern usefulsuccessor of the more sesthetic works of themediaeval Brothers of the Bridge, is a mostremarkable tower known as the Tour de MauConseil. It has for a legend the tale thatPontius Pilate threw himself from its topmoststory. History, more explicit than the over-enthusiastic native, says that it was only theshore-end or gatehouse of a chateau whichguarded the river crossing, and was built
. Castles and chateaux of old Burgundy and the border provinces. nd chateaux it contains only the scantiestof memories. Down by the river, at the terminus of the uglywire-rope suspension bridge, the modern usefulsuccessor of the more sesthetic works of themediaeval Brothers of the Bridge, is a mostremarkable tower known as the Tour de MauConseil. It has for a legend the tale thatPontius Pilate threw himself from its topmoststory. History, more explicit than the over-enthusiastic native, says that it was only theshore-end or gatehouse of a chateau whichguarded the river crossing, and was built byPhilippe de Valois. There is a discrepancyhere of some centuries, so with all due respectto local pride one had best stick to historic fact. There is a Chateau de Pilate, so-called, on thebanks of the Rhone just below Saint Vallier,a few leagues away, of which the traditionallegend is also kept green. It may be only astory anyway, but if one is bound to have itrepeated, it had best be applied at this latterpoint. This tower of Philippe de Valois as it exists. Tower of Philippe de Valois, Vienne By the Banks of the Rhone 293 to-day, also known as the Clef de 1Empire,is thus much more explicitly named, for it wasin a way a sort of guardian outpost which con-trolled the entrance and exit to and from theneighbouring Lyonnais, Vienne, being the outgrowth of a city of greatantiquity, its Roman remains are numerous andsplendid, from the bare outlines of its Amphi-theatre to its almost perfectly preserved Tem-ple dAuguste. Monuments of its feudal epochare not wanting either, though no splendid do-mestic or civic chateau exists to-day in its en-tirety. Instead there are scattered here andthere about the town many fragmentary re-minders of the days of the first Burgundiankingdom, and of the later city of the counts andDauphins. In 879 A. D. the ruler of the province. Boson,Comte de Vienne, Aries et Provence, by hisambition and energy, was proclaimed king bythe barons and bishops assemb
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