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Vanished halls and cathedrals of France (1917)

Edwards, George Wharton, 1859-1950 · Philadelphia, The Penn publishing company · leaf 232

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Chantillyand Hallette, Senlis, until the dissolution of the Carlo-vingian Empire, was the place of royal residence, andeven thereafter, to the time of Henry of Navarre, thekings of France preferred it to all others. The Castlewas built upon the site of the Roman Praetorium, the ruinsof which were… … ■ ■•,»■ ^^1 SENLIS thousand and twenty feet long from east to west andseven hundred and ninety-four feet wide from north tosouth. At each of the angles formed by the broken linesof which the circuit of two thousand seven hundred andfifty-six feet is composed, stands or stood a tower; num-bering…

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