Old Touraine; the life and history of the famous chateâux (1900)
Cook, Theodore Andrea, Sir, 1867-1928 · New York, J. Pott & co. · leaf 96
is in this that his greatness con-sists, for perhaps he was alone of his time in realis-ing that the strength of France lay in her naturalboundaries, and alone in devoting his energies tothe unity and solidification of his country. In 1507, at the engagement of the PrincessClaude to Francis, then… … (%mholde 71 so much magnificence that the town accounts werein hopeless confusion for a long while afterwards. Francis I., whose long nose and slumbrous eyelook down from the walls of so many chateaux ofTouraine, has been at Amboise for some time. Thereader has already been introduced to him in…
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