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The châteaux of Touraine (1906)

Lansdale, Maria Hornor, b. 1860, Guérin, Jules Vallée, 1866-1946, Mills, Harold Palmer. fmo · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 151

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re Dame suflferedterribly. Two kneeling portrait statues of Count Grisegonelleand his son, Fulk Nerra, which the latter had caused to beplaced there, were broken in pieces and thrown down a neigh-boring well; all the carvings were hacked and battered, and therich treasures of the church, among them… … LOCHES then at Tours and finally at Nantes, until the practice of religionhaving once more become lawful in France, it could safelybe sent back to Loches. The cure in charge at Notre Damereceived one day by the swift and sure agency of the posta package which proved to contain the precious object…

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