Castles and chateaux of old Touraine and the Loire country (1906)
Miltoun, Francis · Boston, L. C. Page · leaf 342
as the first of the mediaeval satirists, hiswas not a wide-spread popularity, nor can onespeak very highly of his appearance as a typeof the Tourangeau of his time. His portraitsmake him appear a most supercilious charac-ter, and doubtless he was. He certainly was Azay-le-Eideau, Usse, and Chinon… … 256 Old Touraine and the Loire Country not an Adonis, nor had he the head of a godor the cleverness of a court gallant. Indeedthere has been a tendency of late to representhim as a buffoon, a trait wholly foreign tohis real character. As for Charles VII. and Jeanne dArc, Chi-non was simply the…
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