Castles and chateaux of old Touraine and the Loire country (1906)
Miltoun, Francis · Boston, L. C. Page · leaf 111
Jjtiit ffrnti^ \ Maisons S^e CHATEAUX 5;^ BbOl3 72 Old Touraine and the Loire Country vention of which so much speculation has beenlaunched. Leonardo da Vinci, the protege ofFrangois, has been given the honour, and avery considerable volume has been written toprove the claim. Within this ^tour… … Cypher of Frangois Premier and Claude of France, at Blois this marvellous openwork stairway, — an 65-calier a jour, as the French call it, — withoutan equal in all France, and for daring anddecorative effect unexcelled by any of thoseRenaissance motives of Italy itself. Its ascentturns not, as do…
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