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Updated: June 15, 2025
Each day we drove in the brake to visit some ancient château, such as Azay-le-Rideau, Islette, Chinon, or the Abbey of Fontevreault, finding the roads and scenery in Touraine the most delightful one can imagine.
"Nothing except that he came from Havre on La Touraine last Thursday, and drove from the dock direct to Vantine's house." "My client also came on La Touraine but that, no doubt, was a mere coincidence." "That may be," I agreed, "but it is scarcely a coincidence that both he and your client were after the contents of that drawer." "You mean...."
He was examining it at the time he died. What the other man was doing, we do not know, but if we could identify him, it might help us." "You have not identified him?" "We know nothing whatever about him, except that he was presumably a Frenchman, and that he arrived on La Touraine, two days ago." "That is the boat upon which I came over."
There he imprisoned Arthur in the castle, and despatched his victorious troops against Arthur's duchy; they captured Dol and Fougères, and harried the country as far as Rennes. Philip, after ravaging Touraine, fired the city of Tours and took the citadel; immediately afterward he withdrew to his own territories, as by that time John was again at Chinon.
'Richard, oh, Richard! the King began, half whimsical and half vexed, 'What have you been doing in Touraine? 'Fair sire, answered Richard, 'I have been doing what will, I fear, give pain to our cousin Montferrat.
They saw the walls of the city of Tours, the ancient capital of Touraine, raising their portal towers and embattlements white in the moonlight, while from within their circle rose the immense Gothic mass, which the devotion of the sainted Bishop Perpetuus erected as early as the fifth century, and which the zeal of Charlemagne and his successors had enlarged with such architectural splendour as rendered it the most magnificent church in France.
Alas! she had neither the wish nor the will for it, and I have often heard her say so, with a fear of this journey like death; for she preferred a hundred times to dwell in France as a dowager queen, and to content herself with Touraine and Poitou for her jointure, than to go and reign over there in her wild country; but her uncles, at least some of them, not all, advised her, and even urged her to it, and deeply repented their error."
In Touraine hatred and villification take the form of superb disdain and witty maliciousness worthy of the land of good stories and practical jokes, a spirit which, alas! is yielding, day by day, to that other spirit which Lord Byron has characterized as "English cant."
When Louis XIV. had thus proffered his last word, Philip V. even yet urged some objections, and the Princess des Ursins on her part, moved her friends into action; but there was no means of converting Louis XIV. to what the Court of Madrid demanded, since not one of the allies was willing either; and, as for the acquisition of those few manors in Luxembourg, in exchange for an equivalent in Touraine, he preferred personally to have nothing upon any frontier, than to gain so little, and owe such feeble legacy to an intrigue, unworthy of his character, unworthy of a great nation, and only fit to serve as a text for the biting irony of foreigners or that of his own subjects.
The said letter has been handed to the Governor of Touraine as an historical curiosity, and joined to the pieces of the process in the archbishopric of Tours, by me, Pierre Gaultier, Sheriff, President of the Trades Council.
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