Lansdale, Maria Hornor, b. 1860, Guérin, Jules Vallée, 1866-1946, Mills, Harold Palmer. fmo · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 488
s of abandonment and neglect ;then, in 1725, Louis XV gave it as a residence to his father-in-law, Stanislas Leczinska, driven out of Poland by the Electorof Saxony. This exiled King lived contentedly at Chambord for eightyears. He liked nothing better than to potter about amongthe country-people,… … CHAMBORD in the moats, which he conceived to be unsanitary, and byobliterating the terraces, thereby giving the building its presentsquat appearance. Twelve years later, when Stanislas had gone to take pos-session of the duchies of Bar and Lorraine, given him insatisfaction of his claim on Poland,…
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