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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 207

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eglected garden, where crumbling walls andruined towers start up from amidst a tangle of shrubbery andtrees—vast, sun-bathed, deserted. A path leads straight ahead of you, following the line bf theheavy curtain-wall, and presently there comes into view thegable end of what was once a two-storied… … RUIN OF THE GRANDSALLE, WHERE JEANNE DARCFIRST MET CHARLES VII CHINON Scanty and forlorn as the ruin is, it yet has power to thrillyou, for there, where the upper fire-place marks the line of thesecond floor, was the GrandSalle where Jeanne dArc and theKing first met. Following the way she probably…

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