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A summer in Touraine (1909)

Lees, George Frederic William, 1872- · London : Methuen · leaf 136

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d tothe level of a State prison, the mostillustrious man to be enclosed within itswalls being Nicolas Foucquet, that dishonestSuperintendent of Finance of Louis xivwho, with his peculated millions, built themagnificent Chateau of Vaux, near Melun.In 1760 it became the property of the Dukeof… … AMBOISE: THK CASTLE COURTYARD AND GARDEN

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