Castles and chateaux of old Touraine and the Loire country (1906)
Mansfield, Milburg Francisco, 1871- · Boston, L. C. Page · leaf 140
lying situation, for, as has been in-timated before, this most imposing of all ofthe Loire chateaux has the least desirable situa-tion of any. There is a certain vagueness andforeignness about the sky-line that is almost Chambord 103 Eastern, though we recognize it as pure Renais-sance. Perhaps it… … The ground-plan is equally magnificent,flanked at every corner by a great round tower,with another quartette of thein at the anglesof the interior court. Most of the stonework of the fabric is bril-liant and smooth, as if it were put up but yes^- 104 Old Touraine and the Loire Country terday, and,…
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