Castles and chateaux of old Touraine and the Loire country (1906)
Mansfield, Milburg Francisco, 1871- · Boston, L. C. Page · leaf 274
, throughout the spring and summermonths, of fetes and fairs of many sorts. Here,too, at the extremity of the Rue Nationale, arestatues of Descartes and Balzac. The Tour de Guise on the river-bank recallsthe domination of the Plantagenet kings ofEngland, who were Counts of Anjou since itformed a… … Tours and About There 209 tected the feudal domain of the old abbey ofSt. Martin. The history of days gone by atTours was more churchly than political. Once only — during the reign of Louis XII.— did the States General meet at Tours (in1506). Then the deputies of the bourgeoisiemet alone for their…
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