This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ...that none of the extreme sections in French politics have found a permanent grievance in the chateaux which stand by the river-margins, or lift their turrets from spurs of the mountains. Most of them are capable of being turned to defensive purposes in case of necessity. They thus fit into any political scheme which ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ...that none of the extreme sections in French politics have found a permanent grievance in the chateaux which stand by the river-margins, or lift their turrets from spurs of the mountains. Most of them are capable of being turned to defensive purposes in case of necessity. They thus fit into any political scheme which assumes that the work of national defence is a worthy one. Besides, the aggravating medisevalism of the greater chateaux is softened down for the extreme politician by the brand of' Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity' being placed on their facades. All the defensive chateaux have it; so that even the group which looks forward to the time when phalansteres will prevail, with their gloomy clock-towers and massive wings, for the conduct of manufacture and commerce, is hardly much aggrieved by them. If a chart were to be constructed putting in the thirty thousand chateaux which still dotted the surface of France at the year of the First Revolution, it might even suggest some comforting reflections to the group. Very many of them would be found to be in the position of the Chateau de la Misere, in 'Le Capitaine Fracasse.' In the old ruts of the roads which led to them, the frogs, undisturbed for years, would be found swimming. The tiles of the roof would be covered with blotches of rank moss; the choughs would be hovering above the chimneys; the chipped statues in the gardens would stand halfenveloped with climbing plants. The Revolution was a disastrous period for the chateaux. Many of them suffered by a few days' rough handling from the peasantry what the wear of a couple of centuries would not have brought to them. Lamartine describes the old Gothic chateau of Pierreclos, which dominated a valley close by Milly, where his father's farm was. He call...
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