Old Touraine; the life and history of the famous chateaux of France (1893)
Cook, Theodore Andrea, Sir, 1867-1928 · New York : Scribner · leaf 69
theplains and rivers of Touraine ; Roman funeral urnsand the remains of bodies have been found that hadbeen burnt zuit/tiii the ramparts, for the RomanEmpire had in those days been shaken to its baseby barbarian invasions ; the Armorican Republic hadjust been joined by the men of Tours and… … TOUR DE I. HORLOGE AND BRIDGE AT THE CHATEAU OF CHINON. CHINON 37 1793, and whose outlines a map of that date has pre-served for us. The oldest remains of Galio-Romanbuilding are the enormous squared blocks of stonelying in the shrubberies a little farther on fromthe entrance and rather to the…
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