Old Touraine; the life and history of the famous chateaux of France (1893)
Cook, Theodore Andrea, Sir, 1867-1928 · New York : Scribner · leaf 243
the outworks of theentrance gate. It is appropriate that the memorialsof so sad a fate, of so unexplained a character, shouldbe ruins as strange and as decayed as these ; DeVigny has told the whole sad story of the suddenrise to power, the hopeless love, the whole career ofCinq ]\Iars, from his… … CJNQ MARS RICHELIEU 225 his execution with De Thou. It is but one moretrace of the sinister influence of Richeheu, who builtone of the towns in Touraine, with whose memory allthese Castles of the Fronde are filled. It was downthe Loire that the Cardinal was borne in his last illness,in the vast…
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