Castles and chateaux of old Touraine and the Loire country (1906)
Miltoun, Francis · Boston, L. C. Page · leaf 66
the Sologne is now areclaimed land whose sandy soil has provedadmirably adapted to an unusually abundantgrowth of the vine. So much for this old-timepoint of view, which to-day has changed con-siderably. The Orleannais is one of the most populousand progressive sections of all France, and its The… … scarcely ever out of sight and sound of a hab-itation. In the great forest, just to the west of Or-leans, are two small villages, each a celebratedbattle-ground, and a place of a patriotic pil- 40 Old Touraine and the Loire Country grimage on the eighth and ninth of Novemberof each year. They are…
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