The apartments which he occupied were spacious and well lighted, but almost devoid of furniture; but his iron bedstead was set up there, as in all the chateaux he occupied in his campaigns.
IV Cathedrals andChateaux Amiens By Nathaniel Hawthorne [Footnote: From "French and Italian Note Books.
Searches by the National Guard inchateaux and the disarming of formerly privileged persons.
A price is set upon the heads of the administrators; their houses are the first devastated; all the houses of wealthy citizens are pillaged; and the same is the case with all chateaux and country habitations which display any signs of luxury.
The list of burnt or devastatedchateaux is immense.
They have not the less destroyed most of the chateaux and bourgeois dwellings, either burning them and or else tearing them down.
Eighteen chateauxare pillaged, burnt, or demolished, and among others, those of several gentlemen and ladies who have not left the country.
This one extends from abbeys and chateaux to the "houses of the bourgeoisie.
Bussy learns "that the chateaux in Poitou are again in flames, and that the work is to begin again everywhere.
From Lancers to Gray about three out of five chateaux are sacked.
The band gives notice that it will proceed in the same fashion with all the chateaux in the vicinity, and terror precedes or follows them.
What if all the nobles whose chateaux are burnt, and who have given rent acquittances at the point of the sword, should find some way to avenge themselves and recover their former privileges!
Seized with rage they set fire to the chateau, and during the following week[1337] destroy three abbeys, ruin eleven chateaux and pillage others.
Throughout the country scattered chateaux are swallowed up by the popular tide, and, as the feudal rights are often in plebeian hands, it insensibly rises beyond its first overflow.
Each of these old chateaux has some superstitious tale attached to it.
Some high blue hills were seen at a distance on the right; but nearer, on both sides, were several chateaux and villages, with scattered woods and ponds and rivers, all glowing like rubies in the red light.
If you wish to see what the German soldier can do for love, you have to visit the chateaux which are dotted so thickly all over the Belgian countryside.
And then they had their heads cut off in the Revolution, and the chateaux were left to go to wrack and ruin.
Some of thechateaux that we saw had only poor people in them, and the windows were broken and the roofs were gone from the summer-houses, and the gardens were all wild and untidy.
Convention to the Nievre, he ordered the demolition of all the towers of the chateaux and the belfries of the churches ``because they wounded equality.
Many chateaux were regarded as so many little Bastilles, and in order to imitate the Parisians who had destroyed theirs the peasants began to burn them.
Medoc and Haut Medoc are known to wine lovers everywhere, for here are the famous vineyards of the Chateau Lafitte, owned by Baron Rothschild; the Chateaux Margaux, Latour, and many others.
The Chateaux of Brittany The chateaux of Brittany may truly be called the historical and legendary shrines of the province, for within their halls, keeps, and donjons Breton tradition and history were made.
The Seigneur Yves is wealthy, he has gold and silver, chateaux and broad lands, but the Clerk of Mezlean is poor.
La Roche-Jagu One of the most typical of the chateaux of Brittany is that of La Roche-Jagu, at one time the guardian of the mouth of the river Trieux.
In the time of Louis XIV Le Nôtre changed many of these old chateaux from their fortified state to the more open form made possible by a peaceful life.
There are few houses which naturally demand the treatment of palaces, but there are many which correspond with the smaller chateaux of France and the manor-houses of England.
If one studies the French chateaux one will feel the true beauty and spirit of the times--Blois with its history of many centuries, and then some of the purely Renaissance chateaux, like Chambord.
The chateaux and castles and large manor-houses were strongly fortified, and there were inner courts for exercise.
In France, the chateaux which have most influenced country house building are those which were built during the sixteenth century, many of them during the reign of Francis 1st.
They say these old chateaux are full of secret passages, but I'd never have the luck to find any.
I knew not the location, and there were so many chateaux of the kind in the province!
There had been many other luncheons with generals and staffs in their chateauxwhich were delightful and illuminating occasions, but this had a distinction of its own not only in its companionship but in its surroundings.
All the gardeners of our different chateaux had been philosophers.
All chateaux occupied by big commanders are small, and as a matter of method I am inclined to think.
Castles andChateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country L.
Here in this backwater of the Loire, as one might call it, is as wonderful a collection of natural beauties and historical chateaux as on the Loire itself.
That portion of the collective chateaux facing to the north is now occupied by the Sous-Prefecture, and is more after the manner of the residential chateaux of the Loire than of a fortress-stronghold or prison.
Of course it is understood that, when one speaks of the chateau at Loches, he refers to the collective chateaux which, in more or less fragmentary form, go to make up the edifice as it is to-day.
The Indre possesses the chateau of Azay-le-Rideau and the sombre fortresses of Montbazon and Loches; while the Vienne depends for its chief interest upon the galaxy of fortress-chateaux at Chinon.
One gets glimpses of more or less modern residential chateaux once and again off the main road, but no remarkably interesting structures of any sort are met with until one reaches Cheverny.
Dear architect of fine chateaux in air, Worthier to stand for ever, if they could, Than any built of stone or yet of wood, For back of royal elephant to bear!
Everywhere the nobility rebuilt or extended theirchateaux to the new pattern.
There were a lot of chateaux to rebuild, but the people who burnt them down could hardly complain if the task of rebuilding them pressed rather heavily upon their grimy necks.
Henry James, of all latter-day writers, has given us perhaps the most illuminating accounts of the architectural joy of great churches, chateaux and cathedrals.
Here, too, to a more impressive extent than elsewhere, if we except the papal palace at Avignon, the episcopal residence as well takes on an aspect which is not far different from that possessed by some of the secular chateaux of feudal times.
We leave our estates and our chateaux to speak for us.
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