Romantic castles and palaces, as seen and described by famous writers; (1901)
Singleton, Esther, ed. and tr · New York, Dodd, Mead & Co. · leaf 278
the time of Louis le Debonnaire, atone glance the traveller sees a picture that would enchant apainter, from the Loire that ripples at his feet, the whitehouses of the little village of Chaumont extending like aboa at the foot of the castle, pressed in as it is between thehill and the river, and… … <: ■/I J< J ^^^( wilS^ -fO; ■■■ CHAUMONT SUR LOIRE 211 Catherine deMedici, to the castle terrace hanging twohundred feet above the gorge, the carved buttresses of thechapel in which George Amboise dreamed of the papacy,and the vanes of the tower from which the widow of HenryII. questioned the…
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