Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile"

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile"

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" - Volume 7, Slice 6COUCY-LE-CHTEAU, a village of northern France,...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile"

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile"

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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile"

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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" - Volume 7, Slice 6

COUCY-LE-CHTEAU, a village of northern France, in the department of Aisne, 18 m. W.S.W. of Laon on a branch of the Northern railway. Pop. (1906) 663. It has extensive remains of fortifications of the 13th century, the most remarkable feature of which is the Porte de Laon, a gateway flanked by massive towers and surmounted by a fine apartment. Coucy also has a church of the 15th century, preserving a faade in the Romanesque style. The importance of the place is due, however, to the magnificent ruins of a feudal fortress (see Castle) crowning the eminence on the slope of which the village is built. The remains, which embrace an area of more than 10,000 sq. yds., form an irregular quadrilateral built round a court-yard and flanked by four huge towers. The nucleus of the stronghold is a donjon over 200 ft. high and over 100 ft. in diameter, standing on the south side of the court. Three large vaulted apartments, one above the other, occupy its interior. The court-yard was surrounded on the ground-floor by storehouses, kitchens, &c., above which on the west and north sides were the great halls known as the Salle des preux and the Salle des preuses. A chapel projected from the west wing. The bailey or base-court containing other buildings and covering three times the area of the chteau extended between it and the village. The architectural unity of the fortress is due to the rapidity of its construction, which took place between 1230 and 1242, under Enguerrand III., lord of Coucy. A large part of the buildings was restored or enlarged at the end of the 14th century by Louis dOrlans, brother of Charles VI., by whom it had been purchased. The place was dismantled in 1652 by order of Cardinal Mazarin. It is now state property. In 1856 researches were carried on upon the spot by Viollet-le-Duc, and measures for the preservation of the ruins were subsequently undertaken. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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