Castles and chateaux of old Touraine and the Loire country (1906)
Mansfield, Milburg Francisco, 1871- · Boston, L. C. Page · leaf 246
dred years later. Thestatue which surmounts her tomb, as seen to-day, represents the gentille Agnes in allher loveliness, with folded hands on breast, akneeling angel at her head and a couchant 188 Loches 189 lamb at her feet, — a reminder of her inno-cence, said Henry James, but surely he… … w^ Loches it was Frangois I. who, many years later, wrotethose lines beginning: Gentille Agnes, plus de loz tu m&ites. Whether one comes to Loches by road or byrail, the first impression is the same; he entersat once into a sleepy, old-world town whichhas practically nothing of modernity about…
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