Castles and chateaux of old Touraine and the Loire country (1906)
Mansfield, Milburg Francisco, 1871- · Boston, L. C. Page · leaf 308
ornamental stone-carpet of its courtyardare the ruins of one of the earliest donjons, orkeeps, in all France. It dates from the year990, and was built by the celebrated ComtedAnjou, Foulques Nerra, un criminel devoyedes hommes et de Dieu, whose hobby, evi-dently, was building chateaux, as his… … Chateau de Langeais Luynes and Langeais 233 The Chateau de Langeais of to-day is arobust example of its kind; its walls, flankedby great hooded towers, have a surrounding guette, or gallery, which served as a meansof communication from one part of the estab-lishment to another and, in warlike…
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