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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 362

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in, is now believedby archaeologists to be not earlier than the Hid century, andprobably some three centuries later. The chapel of St. Ve-nant has been turned into a storehouse, and such, too, is thefate of the chapel of the Canonesses of St. Sepulchre, standingclose to the chateau across the… … LUYNES followed by a century of neglect had reduced it to its presentcondition. The revolutionnaire who was responsible for mostof the mischief blew his brains out at the age of eighty-one,not, however, from contrition, but because he had the rheu-matism and could not stand it. The Hospital in the…

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