Old Touraine; the life and history of the famous chateaux of France (1893)
Cook, Theodore Andrea, Sir, 1867-1928 · New York : Scribner · leaf 167
cuous in the great wall ofdivision which cuts through the whole wing like aspinal column, and divides each story into a doublerange of rooms, each large enough, as Balzac said,to hold a company of infantry with ease. Abovethe rooms of Catherine de Medicis, and with anexactly similar arrangement,… … BLOIS {Continued) 149 The Guises were at this time in the chateau, theDuke Francis and the Cardinal ; and though theyhad, Hkc many others of the Court, their own hotelin the town, they preferred to watch events fromclose at hand, and were lodged in the rooms ofLouis XII. above the twisted columns…
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