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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 223

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its final stand. Thisdonjon was shut off from the rest of the building by an enor-mously thick wall, now pierced by a passageway, but whichthen could only be reached from the battlements. Along theroof on the side towards the town runs a chemin de ronde, pfir-tially overhanging the walls and… … APPROACH TO THE GATE OF THE CHATEAU OF LANGEAIS LANGEAIS better why Fulk Nerra planted his keep at this particular spot,especially when bearing in mind that the system of dykes andlevees by which the waters of the Loire are now confined totheir channel had not then been constructed, and that the…

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