There are English-like parks and fine châteaux of rich manufacturers; but contrasted with these nothing like abject poverty.
We have traced it in the middle ages burning the rich man's châteaux and experimenting in theocracy and communism.
Everywhere châteaux belonging to the nobility were burnt by the peasants, their title-deeds carefully destroyed, and the nobles murdered or driven away.
I don't want to waste time on any old châteaux with the Gate of the Giant Scissors just across the river, that we haven't seen yet.
You know Cousin Carl wrote that they were making excursions every day to the old châteaux near there, and I think it quite probable they will be away.
There are the châteaux where kings and queens have lived, and the places that are in the old songs, like Bonnie Doon, and London Bridge, and Twickenham Ferry.
It is one of the most interesting châteaux around here in my opinion.
At the châteaux you will get into a tangle of history, for their chief interest is their associations with the old court life.
They seemed to rejoice at the conflagration of their châteaux and their houses, and at the death of their friends.
The doors of the châteaux were always open to them, and they had a place assigned to them at all feasts.
As I had written in one of my preceding chapters, the inhabitants of the region dominated by the châteaux of the Marshal know now who the inconceivable monster is who carries children off and cuts their throats.
We had seen many old châteaux (though never a surfeit), but the best of all had been reserved for to-day.
Our spare hours come in such small classes that it does not permit me to go about seeing the châteaux of this country, or to go to Tours a great deal to sketch, except when it rains; then is not the time to go.
The country is beautiful; châteaux abound; pretty farms—but I must go to bed.
There is not time enough for me to go around and see the châteaux here.
Francis I came along, noticed that it was different from the other châteaux he had confiscated, and added it to his collection.
There are more than fifty châteaux within easy driving distance of Tours.
Whoever chooses to search the annals of the neighbouring villages and châteaux may find there plenty of similar cases of enormous calamity.
And how if once the enemy should advance into it, if the fight should be played out in their neighbourhood, there where their possessions, their châteaux and fields are situated?
Count Pierre, was once more exemplified in the revenge which the Bernois wreaked upon the Gruyère châteaux of Laubeck and Mannenburg, for the thefts of their herds.
Ten centuries have passed over this castle on the hill; six told the story of its sovereignty over the surrounding country, but unlike most of the châteaux of Switzerland it has been carefully restored and maintains its feudal character.
He has made himself notorious by his private lootings of the châteaux cursed with his presence.
For the most part the villages lie along the hillsides, surrounded by trees, embellished by châteaux and parks.
You may visit five hundred French châteaux and not find one that differs materially from this plan.
Sleep that night was filled with a strange phantasmagoria of crenelated châteaux and armored knights, until the bright Provençal sunlight and the call for a hurried departure dispelled such illusions.
It is the members of this clique who, in Paris during the spring, at their châteaux in the summer and autumn, and on the Riviera after Christmas, lead the amusements and strike the key for the modern French world.
THIS has been a golden day of pure delight, with a brilliant sunshine from early morn to dewy eve, and a cool, refreshing air, an altogether ideal day for our prolonged visitations among the châteaux around Blois!
The little girls take so much more interest in churches and shrines than we had expected that we are half regretting our plan to leave them in a French school in Lausanne while we make our tour among the Châteaux of the Loire.
We crossed a creaking, swaying suspension bridge, one is always crossing bridges here, as the Loire winds itself around these châteaux as if it delighted to encircle them in its shining arms.
Why do many of the people, who do the châteaux so conscientiously, skip Angers?
There are so many châteaux to be visited, and so many excursions on the lake to be made that we could stay here a month and have a charming plan for each day.
Here and there are châteaux with old-fashioned gardens and noble avenues, and we have only to ask permission at the porter's lodge, to walk in and enjoy them at leisure.
The Doubs is crossed twice, when views are obtained of Arguel and Montferrand, and the modern châteaux of Torpes and Thoraise.
Ruins of the Châteaux of Montfaucon and Vaite, to be seen on the way.
In the thirteenth century the châteaux throughout France all began to be built on one specific plan and arrangement, keeping, meanwhile, to the best traditions of Merovingian and Carlovingian times.
This description to a great extent applies only to the châteaux of the powerful and wealthy seigneurs.
THE CHÂTEAUX OF OTHER DAYS The art and architecture of Normandy with respect to religious edifices, and not less with regard to its feudal châteaux, is of a peculiar variety, quite apart from the other types seen in France.
In general, the Norman châteaux of the eleventh and twelfth centuries were little more than a rectangular or round donjon, surrounded by exterior works of relatively little strategic importance.
Illustration: The Two Châteaux of La Roche-Guyon] Let us pray nothing will ever happen which will enable the river trafficker to cut the corners.
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