. Castles and chateaux of old Burgundy and the border provinces. ys were theseigneurs at war with their neighbours. Off to the southward, towards Saint Michelde Maurienne, is one of the most conspicuousof these hill-top chateaux. Chignin is still theproud relic of an ancient chateau which is aland-mark for miles around. It has no historyworth recounting, but is as much like the con-ventional Ehine castle of reality and imagina-tion as any to be seen away from the banks ofthat turgid stream. On a lofty eminence arefour great towers to remind one of the moreextensive structure to which they were
. Castles and chateaux of old Burgundy and the border provinces. ys were theseigneurs at war with their neighbours. Off to the southward, towards Saint Michelde Maurienne, is one of the most conspicuousof these hill-top chateaux. Chignin is still theproud relic of an ancient chateau which is aland-mark for miles around. It has no historyworth recounting, but is as much like the con-ventional Ehine castle of reality and imagina-tion as any to be seen away from the banks ofthat turgid stream. On a lofty eminence arefour great towers to remind one of the moreextensive structure to which they were onceconnected. These ruins, and another rebuilttower of the old chateau of the twelfth and thir-teenth centuries, are now practically all devotedto the religious usages of the Chartreux, but inspite of this they present a militant aspect suchas one usually associates with things secular. The round of Lac Bourget, which environsChambery on the north, suggests many historicsouvenirs of the dukes and the days when theyheld their court at the Chateau de Chateau de Chignin Chambery 239 ^ Between Chambery and Aix-les-Bains, justbeside that wide dusty road along which scorchthe twentieth century nouveau riche, who withtheir villas and gigantic hotels have all butspoiled this idyllic corner of old Europe, risethe walls of the Chateau de Montagny, capturedin 1814 by the allied armies marching againstFrance, and which still conserves, embedded inits portal, a great shot, one of a broadside whichfinally battered in its door. If one would seewar-like souvenirs still more barbarous, a castof the eye off towards Montmelian and Miolanswill awaken even more bloody ones. Theirstory is told elsewhere in these pages. At Bourget du Lac, a dozen kilometres out,are the ruins of the Chateau de Bourget, withinsight of the ancient Lacus Castilion, and a nearneighbour of the celebrated Abbey of Haute-combe. Comte Ame V was bom in the Chateau deBourget in 1249. It had previously belonged toth
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