Castles and chateaux of old Touraine and the Loire country (1906)
Miltoun, Francis · Boston, L. C. Page · leaf 236
s and theleafy avenues which converged upon the struc-ture. When Catherine came she did not disdainto make the best use of Dianes innovation thatsuggested itself to her, which was simply tobuild the Long Gallery over the arches ofthis lovely bridge, and so make of it a veritablehouse over the… … 178 Old Touraine and the Loire Country with the purity of its former glory, as pictur-esque as ever, with turrets, spires, and roof-tops all mellowed with the ages in a most en-trancing manner. Even to-day one enters the precincts of thechateau proper over a drawbridge which spansan arm of the…
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