The modern traveller sees something beyond mere facts. Historical material as identified with the life of some great architectural glory is something more than a mere repetition of chronologies the sidelights and the co related incidents though indeed many of them may be but hearsay are quite as interesting, quite as necessary in fact for the proper appreciation of a famous palace or chateau as long columns of dates or an evolved genealogical tree which attempts to make plain that which could be better left unexplained.
