If the support given to this volume on South Burgundy justifies me in doing so, I hope, before very long, to follow it by a second, dealing with the northern part of the duchy.
Among the works consulted in writing this book are the following:—
LIST OF WORKS CONSULTED
THE DATES REFER TO THE EDITION MADE USE OF
Olivier de la Marche | "Mémoires" | 1819 |
Olivier de la Marche | "Le Chevalier délibère." | 1842 |
C. R. de Caumont de la Force | "Histoire secrète de la Bourgogne" | 1694 |
Brugière de Barante | "Histoire des Ducs de Bourgogne de la Maison de Valois" | 1825-6 |
Ernest Petit | "Histoire des Ducs de Bourgogne, de la Race Capétienne" 9 vols. | 1835-1905 |
Dom Urbain Plancher | "Histoire Générale de la Bourgogne." 4 vols. | 1739-81 |
Philippe de Comines | "Chroniques", etc. 5 vols. | |
Claude Courtépée | "Voyages en Bourgogne" | 1905 |
Claude Courtépée | "Description du Duché de Bourgogne" | 1775-85 |
A. Kleinclausz | "Histoire de la Bourgogne." | 1909 |
A. Kleinclausz | "Régions de la France; La Bourgogne" | |
Francis Miltoun | "Castles and Châteaux of Old Burgundy" | 1909 |
Sir G. F. Duckett (Bart.) | "Abbey of Cluny"; 1839 "Charters and Records" | 1888 |
P. Lorrain | "Essai Historique sur L'Abbaye de Cluny" | 1839 |
J. Pignot | "Histoire de L'Ordre de Cluny" 3 vols. | 1868 |
A. Penjon | "Cluny; La Ville et L'Abbaye" | |
Cistercian Monk | "A Concise History of the Cistercian Order" | 1852 |
H. Collins | "The Cistercian Fathers" | |
M. T. Ratisbonne | "Histoire de Saint Bernard" | 1843 |
G. Chevallier | "Histoire de St. Bernard" | 1888 |
François Fertiault | "Rimes Bourguignonnes" | 1899 |
François Fertiault | "Histoire d'un Chant Populaire Bourguignon" | 1883 |
François Fertiault | "En Bourgogne; Récits Villageois" | 1898 |
François Fertiault | "Une Noce d'Autrefois en Bourgogne" | 1892 |
François Fertiault | "Le Cher Petit Pays" | 1903 |
A. Perrault-Dabot | "L'Art en Bourgogne" | 1897 |
A. Perrault-Dabot | "Le Patois Bourguignon" | |
P. G. Hamerton | "Round my House" | |
P. G. Hamerton | "The Mount" | 1897 |
H. de Fontenay | } | "Autun et ses Monuments" | 1889 |
and | } | |
A. de Charmasse | } | "Autun et ses Monuments, Précis Historique" | 1889 |
Joseph Déchelette | "Guide des Monuments D'Autun" | 1907 |
Joseph Déchelette | "L'Oppidum de Bibracte" | |
Alphonse Germain | "Les Néerlandais en Bourgogne" | 1909 |
M. L'Abbé B—— | "Légendes Bourguignonnes" | 1872 |
M. L'Abbé B—— | "Tebsima" | 1872 |
Lettres d'Abailard et d'Héloise; Nouveau receuil, etc. | 1720 |
Matthew Arnold's Poems | 1885 |
Jules Baux | "Richesses Historiques et Archéologiques sur L'Eglise de Brou" | 1844 |
Camille Jullian | "Vercingetorix" | 1902 |
Camille Jullian | "Histoire de Gaule" | 1908 |
Camille Jullian | "Tableau sommaire de la Gaule sous la domination romaine." | 1892 |
S. Cambray | "Lamartine; A Study" | 1890 |
Lamartine | "Confidences; A Study" | 1849 |
Lamartine | "Le Tailleur de Pierre de Saint Point; A Study" | 1851 |
Michelet | "Histoire de France" | |
Viollet-le-Duc | "Dictionnaire Raisonné" | |
Although the history of Burgundy is intimately connected with that of England—the policy of the Valois Dukes, for example, affected profoundly our national destinies during the hundred years' war—the average English reader's knowledge of the subject is contained within the four corners of a wine list. He knows Beaune—knows the name well, as that of a drinkable brand, may have blessed it in his heart, when a ray from the shaded lamp shot through its ruby depths. If by any chance he loves Meredith, he may, even, under its kindly influence, have whispered to his fair partner, Dr. Middleton's phrase: "Burgundy has great genius; Burgundy sings the inspired ode." But should his lady slip in a question concerning this ruddy heartener of man, he could not answer; he would stumble between the Côte d'Azur and the Côte d'Or.
Not another town of Burgundy could he name. Dijon he knows, and remembers; because there he scalded his throat with hot coffee, gulped down, at three in the morning, on the way home from the Riviera; or, bound for Switzerland, he may have passed through the town. But he does not know Dijon as a Burgundian Capital, nor as a proud city of royal palaces and unrivalled sculpture. At most, when he hears the duchy named, there floats through his mind a shadowy memory of Henry V., or of King Lear.[1]