Singleton, Esther, d 1930, [from old catalog] ed. and tr · New York, Dodd, Mead & co. · leaf 236
gures of the Sixteenthand Seventeenth Century, Diane de Poitiers, Mary Stuart,Gabrielle and Fran^oise deMercoeur come in succession toanimate that smiling nature and to reflect their fair faces inits clear waters. Catherine de Medicis, in passing throughthis beautiful place, here dropped a little… … CHATEAU DE CHENONCEAUX 175 The widow of Henri III., promenading ifi her long robesof mourning, lent it another charm,—that of melancholy;and when Rousseau, at last raised that voice there whichcould gather together tempests, it was not philosophy,nor social conditions, nor the rights of man of…
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