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Old Touraine; the life and history of the famous chateaux of France (1893)

Cook, Theodore Andrea, Sir, 1867-1928 · New York : Scribner · leaf 200

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d, and from the gardens that slopedownwards to the river he will see the other bank ofthe stream, the country of the Sologne, and the bridge BLOIS {Co fI eluded) that points him on to Chambord, where Porthos,l:indl\ giant, might have found a home, when Bracieuxclose by became too small for him. The… … SALAMAXDKK FKOM THE WALLS OF THF. CHATEAU OF BLOIS(tliL liadge of Francis I.) broken with the murder of the Balafre at Blois. Theseventeenth century is the century of the intrigues ofParis, the age of Versailles and Fontainebleau, andTouraine is all but neglected b} the Court. Yet itis impossible…

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