Castles and chateaux of old Touraine and the Loire country (1906)
Mansfield, Milburg Francisco, 1871- · Boston, L. C. Page · leaf 107
SO^e CHATEAUX^ BbOig 72 Old Touraine and the Loire Country vention of which so much speculation has beenlaunched. Leonardo da Vinci, the protege ofFrauQois, has been given the honour, and avery considerable volume has been written toprove the claim. Within this ^^ tour octagone — qui faita ses huit… … Cypher ofFraTifois Premier and Claude of Prance, at Blots this marvellous openwork stairway, — an es-calier a jour, as the French call it, — withoutan equal in all France, and for daring anddecorative effect unexcelled by any of thoseEenaissance motives of Italy itself. Its ascentturns not, as do…
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