Old Touraine; the life and history of the famous chateâux (1900)
Cook, Theodore Andrea, Sir, 1867-1928 · New York, J. Pott & co. · leaf 166
fashion of the architecture around him speaks elo-quently of the three great ages through which thelife of the castle has passed. The early years whenthe Orleans princes were educated here, andValentine Visconti mourned her murdered hus-band; the terrible days of the sixteenth century,when Guise… … lotd 133 in the ruled lines and spaces of the frigid buildingopposite the entrance. The first view of Blois from the town shows theoutside of the wing of Francis I., ending at theright hand corner in the great tower which was halfdestroyed when Mansard joined his later buildingson to the older…
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