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A summer in Touraine (1909)

Lees, George Frederic William, 1872- · London : Methuen · leaf 150

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PlacePlumereau, we found many examples offourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuryhouses, including a few with wooden frontsornamented with roughly carved, naivestatuettes. One of the most celebrated isa house of brick and stone in the RueBriconnet, which goes by the name of theHouse of Tristan… … TOURS : DELICACIES AND DIVAGATIONS 101 is decorated, to be the emblem of Louis xishangsman ! It was never, of course, in anyway connected with that sinister Provost ofthe Marshals of France, and, indeed, was notbuilt until the end of the fifteenth century,during the reign of Charles vm. A still…

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