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IN CHATEAU LAND

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_By Anne Hollingsworth Wharton_


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[Illustration: Neurdein Freres, Photo.

LOCHES WITH GATE OF CORDELIERS]


IN CHATEAU LAND

by

ANNE HOLLINGSWORTH WHARTON

With 25 Illustrations






[Illustration]


Philadelphia and London
J. B. Lippincott Company
MCMXI

Copyright, 1911, by J. B. Lippincott Company

Published November, 1911

Printed by J. B. Lippincott Company
at the Washington Square Press
Philadelphia, U.S.A.




CONTENTS


  I                              PAGE
  AN EMBARRASSMENT OF CHATEAUX      9

  II
  AN ISLAND CHATEAU                30

  III
  AN AFTERNOON AT COPPET           45

  IV
  EN ROUTE FOR TOURAINE            64

  V
  IN AND AROUND TOURS              80

  VI
  LANGEAIS AND AZAY-LE-RIDEAU      96

  VII
  TWO QUEENS AT AMBOISE           117

  VIII
  A BATTLE ROYAL OF DAMES         146

  IX
  A FAIR PRISON                   174

  X
  COMPENSATIONS                   202

  XI
  THE ROMANCE OF BLOIS            226

  XII
  THREE CHATEAUX                  258

  XIII
  CHINON AND FONTEVRAULT          295

  XIV
  ANGERS                          319

  XV
  ORLEANS AND ITS MAID            349

  XVI
  A CHATEAU FETE                  369




LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS


  LOCHES, WITH GATE OF CORDELIERS                   _Frontispiece_

  ISOLA BELLA, LAKE MAGGIORE                                   36

  STAIRCASE AND CLOITRE DE LA PSALLETTE, ST. GATIEN            82

  MEDIAEVAL STAIRWAY, CHATEAU OF LUYNES                        96

  ENTRANCE TO LANGEAIS, WITH DRAWBRIDGE                        98

  CAFE RABELAIS OPPOSITE CHATEAU OF LANGEAIS                  108

  CHATEAU OF AZAY-LE-RIDEAU, EAST FACADE                      112

  CHATEAU OF LANGEAIS, FROM THE LOIRE                         120

  CHATEAU OF AMBOISE, FROM OPPOSITE BANK OF THE LOIRE         130

  CHENONCEAUX, MARQUES TOWER AND GALLERY ACROSS THE CHER      154

  HOUSE OF TRISTAN L'HERMITE                                  178

  AGNES SOREL                                                 188

  ENTRANCE TO CHATEAU OF BLOIS, WITH STATUE OF LOUIS XII      214

  COURT OF BLOIS, WITH STAIRCASE OF FRANCIS I                 228

  LOUISE DE LA VALLIERE                                       238

  CHATEAU OF CHAUMONT, THE LOIRE ON THE LEFT                  264

  SMITHY NEAR GATE OF CHEVERNY                                278
      FROM PHOTOGRAPH BY MRS OTIS SKINNER

  ANNE DE THOU, DAME DE CHEVERNY                              282

  CHATEAU OF CHAMBORD                                         286

  RUINS OF CHATEAU OF COUDRAY AT CHINON                       296

  FRENCH CAVE DWELLINGS NEAR SAUMUR                           316

  FORGE NEAR STONE STAIRWAY AT LUYNES                         354
      FROM PHOTOGRAPH BY MRS OTIS SKINNER

  HOTEL CABU                                                  364

  HOUSE OF JOAN OF ARC                                        364

  SALLE DES MARRIAGES, ORLEANS                                366




IN CHATEAU LAND




I

AN EMBARRASSMENT OF CHATEAUX


                               HOTEL FLORENCE, BELLAGIO, August 10th.

YOU will be surprised, dear Margaret, to have a letter from me here
instead of from Touraine. We fully intended to go directly from the
Dolomites and Venice to Milan and on to Tours, stopping a day or two in
Paris en route, but Miss Cassandra begged for a few days on Lake Como,
as in all her travels by sea and shore she has never seen the Italian
lakes.