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Romance of the renaissance châteaux (1907)

Champney, Elizabeth Williams, 1850-1922 · New York, G.P. Putnam's sons · leaf 292

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told herwhom I had seen. It is nothing you can do for me, JeanGoujon, she replied. It is the Sabbath, andI go to partake of the Holy Communion witha little company of the proscribed religion,in a subterranean chapel in the quarries ofBourre. I was notified on my arrival at Che-nonceau of the… … < z 2< 3< UI-<< X o A Lily among Thorns 203 The quarries of Bourre had furnished theexcellent white stone, easy to cut as cheeseand hardening like marble by exposure, withwhich the chateaux of Chenonceau, of Cham-bord, of Blois, and of much of the city ofTours had been built. The…

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