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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (June 13, 1909)
TIIE OMAHA SUNDAY. BEE: JUNE 13, 1909. r if if I. t CIUTEAU TO BE SHOW PLACE lang-eais Will Be Tnrned Over to the French Nation., US PAET IN FRENCH HISTORY Faaioaa Mediaeval Mronahnld -" rnmf Vlrtaallr Fabll Property Restorations Effected hr Ita Owner. . FAItlS, June B Every traveling- Ameri can who has visited the romantic chateau eountry of France will be.-Interested In the announcement that ty the death, of Jacques Siegfried, the .famous Chateau de Langeals, long occupied toy him as a resi dence, passes to the Instltut de France and will no longer be a will o' the wisp for the tourist. - During the life of M. flleprfrled visitors were only admitted to the chateau during the absence of the famllv, and as the family had a keen aporeclatlon of the Charm and beauty of the place they were never long absent from It. Consequently I .an (real has come to have an Interest as being Invested with some degree of mys tery. Ideal aa Show Place. From the tourists point of view, Lan geals Is Ideal, for It not only has the ruins Of pne of the earliest donjons or keeps In all France, the Fulk Nerra tower, dating from 900, but It has the added charm of being actually lived In. Just what ar rangements will be' made fer the tourist now that the chateau has become virtually bubllc property have not yet been an nounced. As. Is the case with various 9ther of these historical monuments con trolled by the Instltut, It will probably be open at all times to visitors, 'with proper precautions taken for preserving the charming decorations ' and furnishings, which It took M. Siegfried and his adviser, M. Luclen Ray. a Paris architect, more than twenty years to collect, j The restoration and furnishing have been strictly after the Gothic style of the mid die ages. There has been no attempt to rnake a museum of the place, nor, on the ether hand, has It the bareness of the how rooms of the ordinary historical hxmse. The effort throughout has been td reconstitute a habitation of the fifteenth century. The decorations have been copied from contemporary pictures and prints, while the furnishings for the most part are eon temporary with the building Itself. There, are great oaken beds, benches, chalra, tables and chests, while at the same time there are everywhere those little touches so dear to the sightseer that show that real people live there a late magazine lying on the table, perhaps, or a scarf of latest Parisian fashion thrown carelessly over a chair In which Anne of Brittany may have sat. The whole atmosphere of the chateau Is that of ' a place whose greatest glory Is In the past, but which exists today as a peaceful luxurious house hold. Home tow the Summer. To the casual visitor, Eangeals appeals more aa a summer than a winter residence. The enormously thick walls, In many places , as much as twelve feet through, made for coolness, 1 while the windows, although .there are many of them, admit on account of their great depth, so little light that many of the rooms are In a constant state of twilight gloom. '' ' Although, there-are enormous-fire places tn all the looms, yet they are of the kind that would afford more comfort to persons perched on ti e roof near the huge chlm neys, than to the people In : is great salons and chambers they are supposed to warm. The tiled floors, many of them In lovely soft greens and yellows, appeal more for summer living than for winter. Langeals has been called "the swan sons of expiring feudlalam," combining as It does the military architecture of the period with the beginnings of French domestic architecture. Its walls, rising straight and sheer, with great hooded towers, have a surrounding gallery or parapet, which served aa a means of communication from one part of the place to another, and at the same time formed one of the chief means of defense for the chateau. This parapet Is triors than sixty feet up from the ground, and It takea little Imagi nation to picture a familiar scene of the middle ages, when much feudal warfare waged around the spot, and when the assailants, hammering on the great gate below, were pelted with atones, boiling pitch, burning oil, and other cheerful ele ments of warfare by the defenders placed In the gallery where now the Siegfried family nightly take an evening stroll. The chateau from the village street, does not present the Imposing appearance that Its historical interest weald lead ene to expect. The village has grown up aiyl around the chateau, and the narrow little street passes directly under Us walls, and under the main entrance, so that the draw bridge, which Is still lowered and raised every night and morning, though the moat has long been filled up, practically ex tends out to the street. From the courtyard the walls of the chateau take on a Renaissance aspect. The polygonal towers, the winding stairs, the gables and plgnons of the root and the carved stonework, are all of the Renais sance. The three stone stairways which lead to the upper floors are the same as In the days of Charles VIII. The courtyard Itself ts a delight It la paved with colored stene In a formal oar-pet-like pattern and surrounded by high vine hung walls, which afford shade for the occupants of the carved stone benches placed at intervals. Historical Associations. The great historical interest of Langeals has to do with Anne of Brittany, for It was here that the wilful little Breton princess, who at the age of 17 years was a valuable pawn In the complicated game of politics, was married to Charles VIII and so united to France the last of the great feudal states that bad stood out. Prior to this marriage the chateau had played an Interesting and often Important part In affairs. From Its beginning In 990 to about 10 It had a stormy career, being taken and retaken, battered down and built up by turns. Finally at about the date named Louis XI gave orders for the erection of the present building. The great room where the marriage of Charles and the Breton princess took place is the most Interesting in the chateau, and one in which the servants of the Siegfried family take the most pride tn showing to visitors. It now forms the dining hall of the establishment. The visitors are also shown the low door at the end of the pas sage leading to the tennis court where Charles is said to have struck his head the blow that caused his death. Anne did not long remain a wldew, for the term of her marriage contract had set forth that in the event of Charles' death she was to marry the next king. Charles' cousin succeeded as Louis XII, and speedily divorced his own wife and married Anne, who In spite of the passive part she seemed to play in all - the negotfations about herself was really a masterful little person, with a great deal of Individuality of her own. Fer nearly two centuries Langeals was held by the crown and was passed back and forth from one royal favorite to an other, until in 1766 It waa purchased by the Duo de Luynes. At the time of the revolution It was confiscated" and later served as a prison. It then passed through various hands and suffered many vicis situdes until it came to the ownership, of M. 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NEW YORK, June li Hewever prac tical her ideas may be, there is rarely a woman who is willing to take to Europe with her only the garments that may be absolutely necessary. She will always want In addition enough things - to look well, or as well as she can. There are few men, on the other hand, who go for a trip that is to be full of travel who are not , satisfied with, just enough to keep them clean and presentable. That makes the problem - for the man who Is going abroad much easier than for the woman. He has only to get rid of ev erything not indispensable to him. Here is an outfit which will take a man through nicely. There is not enough to give htm trouble with his baggage, and on the other! that the traveler need take Is aa over hand he will not resemble the men who coat, which will be most useful if It Is j-ush over Europe with two shirts to their j long and loose and of rough goods that name, one of dark gray flannel and the i will not show the dust. This one overcoat other of coffee colored pongee. is going to serve for all the uses that "Three suits of clothes will be sufficient one may have for an outer garment" It for any man," says a man Who has not If one wants to wear it and It will do as missed a European trip for years, "and I Include among these an evening dress suit. So many persons who cross now wear evening dress on the steamer that some travelers are uncomfortable without them. Then for the theater in London and for the opera there and in Paris, it is indis pensable. On the other hand, one may travel through Germany and Italy and never feel the need of a swallowtail. ""I would never take a dinner coat ' That does not oonstltute full dress according to European Ideas and a smoker may not be half as useful as the regular evening coat' 60 long as a traveler takes either it should be the coat with the long tails. Two Suits for Travel. "Then there should be two suits for travel, one a little heavier than the other and if possible older. It is folly to use a new suit for traveling on European rail roads. After some hours of travel one can change to the other suit on arriving in a city where he Is to make a stop. "It ts not a bad plan to have the lighter suit of flannel and the ether ef a tweed. I have known men who were keeping the allowance of clothes down to put In an extra pair of trousers t for the coats, but that is not necessary, since there are al most as good facilities for having trousers here. "The only other garment fer outside use trpu pressed in the large cities of Europe as will do for the opera in London or Farts a wrap when the exigencies of a trip re quire a night ride. "This supply of clothing Is enough. Men who do not expect to have use for a dress suit and are willing to take as their models the Englishmen who wander through the opera in Paris wearing knlckerbeckers can dispense altogether with the dress suit, but the average New Yorker will feel more comfortable with it. His Linaerl. "Two dress shirts will be sufficient In addition to the two dress shirts he will not need more than four other shirts, which had best be of the unstarched bosom kind. These will get him through Europe, and so will eight cellars, whteh can be laun dered tn the hotels at very short notice. "Three suits of underwear will be enough. Six pairs of socks will suffice, and he needs one pair of heavy shoes and a pair of patent leathers for evening wear. My advice always is to take . a pair of high tan shoes and a pair of high button patent leathers. Two dress ' white ties, three others, which are "necessary only be cause dust from the continental railroads Is likely to settle in them, half a doien handkerchiefs and two hats will complete the necessary articles for an altogether comfortable trip." The' hats, It was explained, sheuld be one of straw and ene of soft felt A straw hat Is even In London or Paris suitable for a traveler ' to wear with full dress In the evenings. There is always room to stick away a cap. Two . pairs of pajamas will be sufficient to keep the traveler com fortable all summer. "It may be said that to have recourse often to the hotel laundries is expensive," said this expert "and it is so undoubtedly, But it la not as costly as paying for extra baggage, at every point. There is nothing that I have mentioned here hich may not be put into a kit bag. There is no free luggage now in Italy or Germany and everything must be paid for that cannot be put into the brackets above the seats. So the use of a kit bag is an economy. "It only takes a little more elbow grease to carry one's bag and It means no end of freedom from worry and expense. The big kits are practical to carry and most men now use them in preference to bags of any other kind. They have done more than anything else to contribute to the comfort of travel, for they have made men realize that a trunk does not mean the only pos sible way to comfort" Men who are going te do mountain climb ing or to take special trips that require different dress need not add to the supply named here. They may leave out one pair of trousers if they are going to climb and put in knickerbockers instead. If they are going to spend a week or two on the Italian lakes, at Hamburg or any of the watering places in which there may be deirand for more formal dress it Is not difficult to leave out one pair of the trousers, wheh equips him completely for all that the most modish spa may demand. 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