Château de Nobles à La Chapelle-sous-Brancion

Château de Nobles à La Chapelle-sous-Brancion

English: Identifier: castleschateauxo00mans (find matches) Title: Castles and chateaux of old Burgundy and the border provinces Year: 1909 (1900s) Authors: Mansfield, Milburg Francisco, 1871- (from old catalog) Subjects: Castles Publisher: Boston, L. C. Page & company Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: eon. Near Saint-Pont is the ancient Chateau deNoble, belonging, in 1558, to Nicolas de Pisa,and, in 1789, to Claude de la Beaune. It is nota splendid structure in any architectural sense,but a most curious and appealing one. Its chiefdistinction comes from its two pointed coiffedtowers, one at either end of a high slopinggable. Eepairs and restorations made since the Kev-olution have deprived it of the ancient ram-parts which once entirely surrounded it, butthe romantic and curious aspect of the mainbody of the structure, and those all-impressive,svelt, sky-piercing towers, make it seem tooquaint to be real. Certainly no more remark-able use of such adjuncts to a seigneurial cha-teau has ever been made than these towers.Here they are not massive, nor particularly tall,but their proportions are seemingly just whatthey ought to be. They are, at any rate, en-tirely in accord with the rest of the structure,and that is what much modern architecturelacks. Macon, Cluny and the Charollais 169 Text Appearing After Image: CHAPTEE XII IN THE BEAUJOLAIS AND LYONNAIS South from Chalon, by tlie banks of theSaone, lies the Beaujolais, a wine-growingregion which partakes of many of the character-istics of the Cote dOr itself. Further south,beyond Macon, the aspect of the Lyonnais issomething quite different. All is of a bustleand hustle of the feverish life of to-day, whilstin the Beaujolais pursuits are agricultural.Each of these regions is profoundly wealthyand prosperous, an outgrowth, naturallyenough, of the opulent times of old, for here,as in the heart of Burgundy, the conditions oflife were ever ample and easy. Throughout the countryside of the Beaujo-lais and the Maconnais one notes a manner ofbuilding with respect to the meaner dwellingswhich, to say the least, is most curious. Thesesmall houses are built of a species of sun-driedbricks or lumps of clay. It seems satisfactory;as satisfactory as would be an adobe dwelling 170 Beaujolais and Lyonnais 171 —^ in a dry climate. But here in times of flo Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.

Château de Nobles à La Chapelle-sous-Brancion

Château de Nobles à La Chapelle-sous-Brancion

Château de Nobles à La Chapelle-sous-Brancion

Château de Nobles à La Chapelle-sous-Brancion

Château de Nobles à La Chapelle-sous-Brancion

Château de Nobles à La Chapelle-sous-Brancion