Category: Travel Writing
Any account of the Loire and of the towns along its banks must naturally have for its chief mention Touraine and the long line of splendid feudal and Renaissance chateaux which reflect themselves so gloriously in its current.
The Blesois or Blaisois was the ancient name given to the _petit pays_ which made a part of the government of the Orleannais. It was, and is, the borderland between the Orleanna...
12. CHAPTER XII.From Langeais, one's obvious route lies towards Chinon, via Azay-le-Rideau and Usse. These latter are practically within the forest, though the Foret de Chinon proper does not a...
13. CHAPTER XIII.As one crosses the borderland from Touraine into Anjou, the whole aspect of things changes. It is as if one went from the era of the Renaissance back again into the days of the...
1. CHAPTER I.Any account of the Loire and of the towns along its banks must naturally have for its chief mention Touraine and the long line of splendid feudal and Renaissance chateaux which...
2. CHAPTER II.Of the many travelled English and Americans who go to Paris, how few visit the Loire valley with its glorious array of mediaeval and Renaissance chateaux. No part of France, exc...
7. CHAPTER VII.Amboise! What history has been made there; what a wealth of action its memories recall, and what splendour, gaiety, and sadness its walls have held! An entire book might be writ...
16. CHAPTER XVI.The gateway to the upper valley may be said to be through the Nivernais, and the capital city of the old province, at the juncture of the Allier and the Loire.
11. CHAPTER XI.As one leaves Tours by the road which skirts the right bank of the Loire, he is once more impressed by the fact that the _cailloux de Loire_ are the river's chief product, thoug...
6. CHAPTER VI."C'est une grande dame, une princesse altiere, Chacun de ses chateaux, marque du sceau royal, Lui fait une toilette en dentelle de pierre Et son splendide fleuve un miroir de cr...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Chenonceaux is noted chiefly for its chateau, but the little village itself is charming. The houses of the village are not very new, nor very old, but the one long street is mos...
5. CHAPTER V.One leaves the precincts of Chambord by the back entrance, as one might call it, through six kilometres of forest road, like that by which one enters, and soon passes the little...
10. CHAPTER X.Tours, above all other of the ancient capitals of the French provinces, remains to-day a _ville de luxe_, the elegant capital of a land balmy and delicious; a land of which Dant...
15. CHAPTER XV.Whether one enters Berry through the valley of the Cher or the Indre or through the gateway of Sancerre in the mid-Loire, the impression is much the same. The historic province...
4. CHAPTER IV.Chambord is four leagues from Blois, from which point it is usually approached. To reach it one crosses the Sologne, not the arid waste it has been pictured, but a desert which...
9. CHAPTER IX.Much may be written of Loches, of its storied past, of its present-day quaintness, and of its wealth of architectural monuments. Its church is certainly the most curious religio...
14. CHAPTER XIV.The estuary of the Loire belongs both to Brittany and to the Vendee, though, as a matter-of-fact, the southern bank, opposite Nantes, formed a part of the ancient Pays de Retz,...