Castles and chateaux of old Touraine and the Loire country (1906)
Mansfield, Milburg Francisco, 1871- · Boston, L. C. Page · leaf 100
and crowned by thick forests. The building of Louis XII. presents its brick-faced exterior in black and red lozenge shapes,with sculptured window-frames, squarely uponthe little tree-bordered place of to-day, which The Blaisois and the Sologne 65 in other times formed a part of that magnifi-cent… … structure one sees the effigy of the porcupine,that weird symbol adopted by the family ofOrleans. The choice of this ungainly animal — in spiteof which it is most decorative in outline —was due to the first Louis, who was Due dOr-leans. In the year 1393 Louis founded the The Blaisois and the…
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