Castles and chateaux of old Touraine and the Loire country (1906)
Miltoun, Francis · Boston, L. C. Page · leaf 32
is one long succession of floridmasterpieces, not to be equalled elsewhere. A General Survey 9 The true chateau region of Touraine — bywhich most people usually comprehend theLoire chateaux — commences only at Blois.Here the edifices, to a great extent, take onthese superfine residential attributes… … richard, at Leches, and Beaugency, are still tobe found scattering examples of feudal for-tresses and donjons which are as representa-tive of their class as are the best Norman struc-tures of the same era, the great fortresses ofArques, Falaise, Domfront, and Les Andelysbeing usually accounted as…
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