Summer In Touraine

by Lees

• ISBN13: 9780710308894
• ISBN10: 0710308892
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2006-09-21
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The name Touraine is now meant to refer to that indefinite part of central France celebrated for its historical houses and its natural beauty. The author's aim in this enchanting work is to provide the traveller, armchair and actual, with sufficient intellectual equipment so that he may find the beautiful chateux of this region something more than coy lamentations of stone and mortar. Studied as they are in connection with the times through which they have lived, the buildings share their lives, the lives of the people who have occupied them, and the times through which they have passed.

Table of Contents

DEDICATION	v
I. THE FRENCH RENAISSANCE AND TWO OF ITS PALACES	1	(44)
II. IN THE SAD SOLOGNE: AT CHEVERNY AND LASSAY	45	(24)
III. BACK TO THE LOIRE: AT CHAUMONT AND AMBOISE	69	(24)
IV. AT TOURS: DELICACIES AND DIVAGATIONS	93	(21)
V. DOWN THE LOIRE: AT LUYNES, CINQ-MARS, AND LANGEAIS	114	(38)
VI. DOWN THE LOIRE: AT ST. PATRICE AND PORT BOULET	152	(25)
VII. AT SAUMUR AND MONTREUIL-BELLAY	177	(16)
VIII. ALONG THE VIENNE: TO CHINON	193	(18)
IX. AT LE GRAND PRESSIGNY AND LA GUERCHE	211	(13)
X. AT LA CHAPELLE-BLANCHE AND LOCHES	224	(16)
XI. MONTRÉSOR AND ITS TREASURE	240	(16)
XII. IN THE VALLEY OF THE INDRE: FROM MONTBAZON TO RIGNY-USSÉ	256	(21)
XIII. UP THE CHER: FROM VILLANDRY TO VÉRETZ	277	(12)
XIV. UP THE CHER: AT STAINLESS CHENONCEAUX	289	(10)
XV. IN THE SARTHE: FROM LE LUDE TO JARZÉ	299	(10)
INDEX	309