Castles and chateaux of old Touraine and the Loire country (1906)
Mansfield, Milburg Francisco, 1871- · Boston, L. C. Page · leaf 338
e world has known. Though one cannot feast his eye upon thespot of Eabelaiss birth, historians agree thatit took place at Chinon in 1483. Much is knownof the Cure de Chinon; but, in spite of hisrank as the first of the mediaeval satirists, hiswas not a wide-spread popularity, nor can onespeak very… … 256 Old Touraine and the Loire Country not an Adonis, nor had he the head of a godor the cleverness of a court gallant. Indeedthere has been a tendency of late to representhim as a buffoon, a trait wholly foreign tohis real character. As for Charles VII. and Jeanne dArc, Chi-non was simply the…
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