Castles and chateaux of old Touraine and the Loire country (1906)
Miltoun, Francis · Boston, L. C. Page · leaf 366
her mother), whichbegins: ^ Nous arrivons ici, nous avons quittSTours ce matin. It was a good days journeyfor those times, whether by malle-post orthe private conveyance which, likely enough,Madame de Sevigne used at the time (1630).To-day it is a mere morsel to the hungry road-devouring maw of a… … Chateau de Saumur Anjou and Bretagne 277 pled by a class of peasants as picturesque andgay as the Neapolitan of romance. ^ Saumur est, ma foi! une jolie ville, saida traveller one day at a table dhote at Tours.And so indeed it is. Its quays and its squareslend an air of gaiety to its proud old…
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