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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 208

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e de galanteries, whichkept up the constant semblance of a mimic war.Michelet, romantic as ever, explains the strangenessof the plan of Chambord by the state of mind inwhich the erandson of Valentine Visconti returned CHAMBORD 189 from his prison at Madrid ; but the chateau of Long-champs with the… … i-LAN OK THE CHATEAU OK CHAMBORD (a Iechelle duii demi-milliiuitre puurmetre.—VioUct Ic Due). parody of the old feudal castles, just as the Abbe\-of Thelema parodies the abbeys of the twelfth andthirteenth centuries. Both heaped a fatal ridiculeupon the bygone age, but what Rabelais could onlydream…

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