Castles and chateaux of old Touraine and the Loire country (1906)
Mansfield, Milburg Francisco, 1871- · Boston, L. C. Page · leaf 362
(to her mother), whichbegins: Nous arrivons id, nous avons quitteTours ce matin. It was a good days journeyfor those times, whether by malle-post orthe private conveyance which, likely enough,Madame de Sevigne used at the time (1630).To-day it is a mere morsel to the hungry road-devouring maw of a… … Chateau de Saumw Anjou and Bretagne 277 pled by a class of peasants as picturesque andgay as the Neapolitan of romance. Saumur est, ma foi! une jolie ville, saida traveller one day at a table dhote at Tours.And so indeed it is. Its quays and its squareslend an air of gaiety to its proud old hotel…
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