Castles and chateaux of old Touraine and the Loire country (1906)
Miltoun, Francis · Boston, L. C. Page · leaf 306
walls which follow thesummit of the cliff behind La Pile. The little town of not more than a coupleof thousand inhabitants nestles in a bend of theLoire, where there is so great a breadth thatit looks like a long-drawn-out lake. The lowhills, so characteristic of these parts, stretchthemselves on… … Ruins oj Cinq-Mars Luynes and Langeais 229 the right bank and shelter the town which liesbelow. Cinq-Mars is a miniature metropolis, thoughnot a very progressive one at first sight; in-deed, beyond its long main street and its houses,which cluster about its grim, though beautiful,tenth and twelfth…
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