Pierrefonds
Americannoun
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When Viollet-le-Duc, under the Second Empire, was allowed to restore one great chateau, he chose the latest, Pierrefonds, built by Louis d'Orleans in 1390.
From Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Henry Adams
"At Pierrefonds; where is that, M. de Valon—near Belle-Isle?"
From The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" by Alexandre Dumas père
It's only a bandbox of a thing compared with Coucy or Pierrefonds or any of the northern ones.
From The Brimming Cup by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Go to the entrance of the grottoes, my good Yves, and you will there find the Seigneur de Pierrefonds, who is resting after the fatigue of our journey.
From The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas père
I preferred Pierrefonds, with its gargoyles and its hard, carved chairs.
From In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters by L. de (Lillie de) Hegermann-Lindencrone
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