Castles and chateaux of old Touraine and the Loire country (1906)
Mansfield, Milburg Francisco, 1871- · Boston, L. C. Page · leaf 410
s besieged, the mostmemorable event of this nature being the at-tack of the royalists in 1573 against theFrondeurs who were shut up in the town. Thedefenders were without artillery, but so habit-uated were they to the use of the fronde thatfor eight months they were able to hold thecity against the… … La Tour, Sancerre Berry and George Sands Country 319 the chateau of Gien piercing the horizon. Thechateau is a most curious affair, with its chain-built blocks of stone, and its red and black —or nearly black — brique, crossed and recrossedin quaint geometrical designs. It was built in1494 for Dame…
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