Castles and chateaux of old Touraine and the Loire country (1906)
Mansfield, Milburg Francisco, 1871- · Boston, L. C. Page · leaf 236
Chenonceaux 179 Long Gallery — was intended as a banquet-ing-hall, and possessed four great full-lengthwindows on either side looking up and downstream, from which, was seen — and is to-day … — an outlook as magnificently idyllic as is pos-sible to conceive. Jean Goujon had designedfor the ceiling one of those wonder-works forwhich he was famous, but if the complete planwas ever carried out, it has disappeared, foronly a tiny sketch of the whole scheme remainsto-day. 180 Old Touraine…
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