Castles and chateaux of old Touraine and the Loire country (1906)
Miltoun, Francis · Boston, L. C. Page · leaf 46
nd bare; Amboise, with its greattower high above the river, follow in turn tillthe Loire makes its regal entree into Tours. What a spectacle it is, wrote Sterne in Tristram Shandy, for a traveller whojourneys through Touraine at the time of thevintage. And then comes the final step which bringsthe… … Coifjes oj Amhoise and Orleans A Gi-eneral Survey 21 comes a great provincial capital, sits enthronedupon the river-bank in mighty splendour. The feudal towers of the Chateau de Luynesare almost opposite, and Cinq-Mars, with itspagan pile and the ruins of its feudal castlehigh upon a hill, points…
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