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Romance of the Feudal Chateaux, E. W. Champney: Hardback: 1903: Architecture
Romance of the Feudal Chateaux, E. W. Champney: Hardback: 1903: Architecture
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Romance of the Feaudal Chateaux
By Elizabeth W. Champney.
Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, London, 1903. Hardback cover, 436 pages. Black & white illustrations throughout. Hand-cut paper. Gilded head.
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Overall fair condition - see photos. Fading/sun-staining to spine, some wear to corners/spine top/bottom. No names or writing. Images crisp & clear throughout.
"The romancer, like the playwright, if his period is given, has his work in great part mapped out for him, for the date decides not alone the scenery, the costuming, and other adjuncts of the play, but the customs and opportunities of life, and so in great measure the plot itself.
Romance is the child of History, and as legitimately, though less obviously, the child of Architecture; and the knight who wore harness and lived within the rough walls of a grim fortress was a different man, for those from the silken courtier who very reasons, lolled over the carven balustrades of a cháteau of the Renaissance.
We have few vestiges of the dwellings of the earlier races in France, for they built in earth and wood, and their constructions have for the most part disappeared. The oldest stone monuments in the country are the Celtic dolmens of Brittany, and these were not dwellings but tombs and altars. Though we can point to no other constructions of this half-mythical period.
Brittany is by far the best field in France for the lover of the earliest legendary lore. Its authentic history glides back in an untroubled stream to primeval man uncomplicated by any political or social changes In 58 B.C., Brittany was made nominally a Roman province, but Cæsar never really conquered this part of Gaul, nor did the Merovingian kings, and thus it remained undisturbed in the cult of its Druidical religion and its tribal independence until the eighth century, when it was subjugated by Charlemagne Civilisation, education, convention, were slow to enter Brittany."
(Bindery shelves A2)
