Castles and chateaux of old Touraine and the Loire country (1906)
Miltoun, Francis · Boston, L. C. Page · leaf 414
es besieged, the mostmemorable event of this nature being the at-tack of the royalists in 1573 against theFrondeurs who were shut up in the town. Thedefenders were without artillery, but so habit-uated were they to the use of the fronde thatfor eight months they were able to hold thecity against… … La Tour- J5 O-nearre Jja Tour, Sancerre 318 Old Touraine and the Loire Country blindly rambling off into culs-de-sac whichlead nowhere. Above it all is the fine chateau,built in a modern day after the Renaissancemanner, of Mile, de Crussol, proudly seated onthe very crest of the hill. Within the…
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