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The châteaux of Touraine (1906)

Lansdale, Maria Hornor, b. 1860 · New York : The Century Co. · leaf 30

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t was broken in pieces andthrown aside, but in 1820 an enlightened mayor of Tours dis-covered and set it up in its present position. When Sem-blengay made his gift to the town, monumental public fountainswere a novelty introduced from Italy after the Italian cam-paigns of Charles VIII and Louis… … TOURS The idea we gather of the manner in which the two towns,Chateauneuf and Tours, developed, is a widely differing one.Chateauneuf is described as teeming with a bustling, pros-perous population who built fine houses, multiplied churches,trafficked with the swarms of pilgrims who thronged to…

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