Latour J.P.B.

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Latour J.P.B.
LA PRISE DE CHIEVREMONT OU LES MOEURS DU XEME SIECLE - Original edition, published in Liège, at the Imprimerie Philosophique, in 1824. Covered in a half-basane binding with a smooth spine decorated with gold threads and a red title piece. A fairly well-preserved copy: some rubbing of use on the headdresses and bit a little cracked. Back a little bit faded. Solid hinge. Inside fairly cool with some light freckles. The Château de Chèvremont is a castle, now in ruins, located in the present Belgian commune of Chaudfontaine, on a promontory overlooking the Vesdre, a few kilometres east of Liège. In the 10th century, the county of Liège was a subdivision of Lower Lotharingia. Reputed to be impregnable, the castle was used as a refuge in 881 during the Norman invasion16. Chèvremont Abbey was a property of the Notre-Dame d'Aix-la-Chapelle chapter since Otto I of the Holy Roman Empire donated it in 972 In 918, Gislebert of Lotharingia, Count of Maasgau and lay abbot of Stavelot Abbey18 , revolted against Charles III the Simple, King of France and Lotharingia, who began the siege of Chèvremont in 922. In 939, it was Otto I's turn to support a siege against his brother-in-law. The fortress, again besieged in 986 by the army of Empress Theophano Skleraina, mother and regent of Otto III, was taken and finally destroyed. According to legend the prince-bishop of Liège Notger eventually seized it by cunning shortly afterwards and razed it to the ground19.
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