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Romantic castles and palaces (1901)

Singleton, Esther, d 1930, [from old catalog] ed. and tr · New York, Dodd, Mead & co. · leaf 496

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d, the people of the country like to grouparound these religious houses where they find at the sametime a church with its spiritual aid, a refuge always openagainst the persecution of the mighty, a school, a hospital,and a model farm with its agricultural and industrial in-struction. In a few years… … chAteau de loches 381 easy to defend : it was protected on one side by that elbowof the mountain to which St. Ours had retired and by theescarpment towards the Indre, a flank that was rendered al-most inaccessible by the river and the valley marshes ; on an-other, by the natural depression of the…

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