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The châteaux of Touraine (1906)

Lansdale, Maria Hornor, b. 1860 · New York : The Century Co. · leaf 38

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rly exempted from their burden of tumultuous life,not to indulge in idle speculations as to how it would have beenhad one of those three boys lived and the younger branch ofthe House of Valois had not succeeded. France without apere du peuple, without a Franc^ois I*, without the MedicianQueens and… … TOURS Gatiens and the house of Mile. Gamard resting eternally inthe shadow of the great cathedral and enveloped in a pro-found silence broken only by the clanging of the church-bells,the mufifled sound of chanting voices and the shrill cries ofjack-daw^s perched aloft on the summits of the towers,…

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