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Updated: June 11, 2025
As we passed the little town of Condrieu where a lonely enthusiast stood up on the bank and waved a flag at us we saw overtopping it, on a fierce little craggy height, the ruined stronghold of its ancient lords.
The more that I look into the history of that time the more am I convinced that mediævalism, either as an institution or as an investment, was not a success. Condrieu is a dead little town now.
As a seat of thieving industry its importance disappeared centuries ago; and its importance as a boating town whence were recruited a large proportion of the Rhône boatmen vanished in the dawn of the age of steam. They were good fellows, those Condrieu boatmen, renowned for their bravery and their honesty throughout the river's length.
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