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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 591 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PIERREFONDS , a See also:

town of See also:northern See also:France, in the See also:department of See also:Oise, 9 M. S.E. of See also:Compiegne by road. Pop. (1906), 1482. It is celebrated for its feudal stronghold, a masterpiece of See also:modern restoration. The See also:building is rectangular in shape, with a See also:tower at each corner and at the centre of each of the walls, which are strengthened by crenelation and See also:machicolation. A lofty keep defends the See also:principal entrances on the See also:south-See also:west. The interior buildings are chiefly modern, but the exterior reproduces faithfully that of the See also:medieval fortress. Pierrefonds has a See also:church dating from various periods from the See also:lath to the 16th See also:century, and its See also:mineral springs are in some repute. The See also:chateau was begun in the last See also:decade of the 14th century by See also:Louis d'See also:Orleans, to whom the domain was given by See also:Charles VI., and finished See also:early in the 15th century. It was subsequently held by the Burgundians, the See also:English and the adherents of the See also:League, from whom it passed to See also:Henry IV. It was dismantled in 1622.

The ruins, bought by See also:

Napoleon I., were restored, by See also:order of Napoleon III., from 1858 to 1895, under the direction, first of See also:Viollet-le-Duc and afterwards of E. Boeswillwald.

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