The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · Location
Ripaille
- castle
- medieval monastic
The lakeside retreat of the dukes of Savoy on Lake Geneva, where a duke withdrew into a quasi-monastic court. Gibbon uses it as a scene of princely retirement.
- Type
- castle
- Style
- medieval monastic
- First appears
- Book 1 · Ch. 289
- Books
- 1
History
BOOK 1The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire / Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes)
The lakeside retreat of the dukes of Savoy on Lake Geneva, where a duke withdrew into a quasi-monastic court. Gibbon uses it as a scene of princely retirement.
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