Castles and chateaux of old Touraine and the Loire country (1906)
Mansfield, Milburg Francisco, 1871- · Boston, L. C. Page · leaf 54
y ofthis splendid, bountiful region, the lower val-ley of the Loire. Here the river first takeson a complexion which previously it hadlacked, for it is only when the Loire becomesthe boundary-line between the north and thesouth that one comes to realize its full im-portance. The Orleannais, like… … The Orleannais 31 frankly industrial centres of the north. Inspite of this, though, the Orleannais is notidle. Orleans is the obvious pointe de depart forall the wonderland of the Renaissance whichis to follow, but itself and its immediate sur-roundings have not the importance for thevisitor, in…
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