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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 317

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s of the reign at the hour when the King was expectedto appear. Suitors with petitions which, by the Kings order,must be placed in his own hand, crowd about the entrance.In the quadrangle the armed adherents of the Duke of Alengon,Henrys brother, jostle those of Henry himself, for he never,despite… … ENTRANCE THROUGH WlUG OF LOUIS XH, BLOIS BLOIS ters easy-going indifiference to the flirtations of his Queen,Margaret of Valois; while in and out among the crowd ghdethe emissaries of the Guises, silent, watchful and alert, notingevery word of discontent, every indication of a fresh convertto the…

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