Castles and chateaux of old Touraine and the Loire country (1906)
Mansfield, Milburg Francisco, 1871- · Boston, L. C. Page · leaf 280
features have disappeared, and to-day it is buta scrappy collection of tumble-down buildingsdevoted to all manner of purposes. A fewfragmentary low-roofed vaults are left, anda brick and stone building, flanked by an octag-onal tower, containing a stairway; but this isabout all of the former… … 214 Old Touraine and the Loire Country dedicated to Our Lady of Olery, before whosealtar the superstitious Louis made his incon-stant devotions. Once a great forest surrounded the chateau,and was, as Scott says, rendered dangerousand well-nigh impracticable by snares andtraps armed with…
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