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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 441

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ine, till 1550, when Catherine de Medicis bought itfrom the heirs. In the time of Louis XI, the chief of the family of Chaumont-Amboise had been Pierre dAmboise, Sieur de Chaumont. Hejoined the Ligue du Bien Public^ in 1465 and was punished byhaving his chateau razed to the ground. Later the King… … CHATEAU OF CHAUMONT: ENTRANCE CHAUMONT lor, Chamberlain, and Governor of Ille de France, to rebuild itat the expense of the Crown, and very handsomely and solidlyhe did it as can be seen to this day. By the latter part of the XVth century the day of feudal archi-tecture was over: we have seen the…

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