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Castles and chateaux of old Touraine and the Loire country (1906)

Mansfield, Milburg Francisco, 1871- · Boston, L. C. Page · leaf 180

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France, and for this reasonmany dwellers in the large cities, if they maynot all have a mediaeval chateau, have at leasta villa, far away from the madding crowd and yet within four hours travel of the capitalitself. Touraine, properly speaking, has no naturalfrontiers, as it is not enclosed by… … Touraine: Garden Spot of France 135 tions of the people are everywhere the same,though the two sections differ somewhat intemperament. In the south, the Tourangeauis timid and obliging, but more or less en-grossed in his affairs; in the north, he isproud, egotistical, and a little arrogant,…

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