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Old Touraine; the life and history of the famous chateâux of France (1900)

Cook, Theodore Andrea, Sir, 1867-1928 · New York, J. Pott · leaf 82

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of these latter are perhaps tobe found in the dolmen of great stones about twomiles to the east of Chinon, which may have markedthe burial-place of a chief. In the writings of Greg-ory of Tours Chinon is described as a castrum —the word he always uses for a Roman fort, and theRomans left their… … (Sh inon 63 been burnt within the ramparts, for the RomanEmpire had in those days been shaken to its baseby barbarian invasions; the Armorican Republichad just been joined by the men of Tours and An-jou, for whom a little later St. Mexme was per-forming miracles within the fort to keep at bay…

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