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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 378

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id to have lodged herescadron volant^ when, long after the Bohiers day, she fetedher three sons, one after another, at Chenonceaux. At each angle rises a round tower, and beyond the tower onthe left, as you face the entrance, a lofty chapel is thrown outresting upon a single pier of its own. The… … CHENONCEAUX amount of exposure seem able to produce. The woodwork ispainted and gilded, and harmonizes agreeably with the creamyhue of the masonry. Where the stonework gives a painful im-pression of lately having been scraped, it is in reality the marksof the operations which the present proprietor…

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