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The châteaux of Touraine (1906)

Lansdale, Maria Hornor, b. 1860 · New York : The Century Co. · leaf 161

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fterror in the name of the mad King and of his son, Charles,then Dauphin. All over France the people were taking refuge in the townsfrom the English, the Burgundians, or the Armagnacs. Thefields were left uncultivated, the cost of bread and wine andeggs rose to famine prices. The most dreadful… … ENTRANCE GATE TO CHATEAU OF CHINON BUILT BY HENRY PLANTAGENET wnt ■ lin- CHINON he went to Tours, liberated the Queen, and with her marchedon Paris, where his followers drove out the Armagnacs withterrible massacres. The Provost of Paris, Tangui du Chatel,had barely time to snatch up the Dauphin in…

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