INDEX

Abbeville, 107.

Abd-el-Kader, Emir, 165.

Abelard, 293.

Absalom, 281.

Acheneau, The, 298.

Adams, John, 124.

Alaric, 149.

Alcuin, Abbé, 206.

Alençon, Ducs d', 195, 334.

Alençon, Marguerite d', 97, 150, 151-152.

Allier, The, 330.

Amboise and Its Château, 3, 20, 82, 96, 100, 123, 130-131, 137, 140, 148-169, 172, 181, 186, 194, 249.

Amboise, Family of, 118, 120-122.

Amboise, Forêt d', 169.

Amiens, 210.

Ancenis and Its Château, 11, 21-23, 291.

Andrelini, Fausto, 66.

Anet, Château d', 107, 177, 322.

Ange, Michel, 208, 249.

Angers and Its Château, 7, 10-13, 15, 21-23, 40, 84, 275, 278, 280, 283-284, 286-290, 304, 308.

Angoulême, 194, 304.

Angoulême, Isabeau d', 267.

Angoulême, Jean d', 89.

Angoulême, Louise de Savoie, Duchesse d' (See Savoie, Louise de).

Anjou, 15, 26, 142, 161, 273, 274, 284, 289-290, 292, 306, 322.

Anjou, Counts of, 150, 193, 208, 232, 239, 267, 288.

Anjou, Foulques Nerra, Comte d' (See Foulques Nerra).

Anjou, Margaret of, 280.

Anne of Austria, 301-302, 319.

Aquitaine, 18, 193.

Arbrissel, Robert d', 263.

Arc, Jeanne d', 202, 254-256, 258-260.

Ardier, Paul, 115.

Arques, Château d', 9.

Aumale, Duc d', 165.

Aussigny, Thibaut d', 48.

Authion, The, 13.

Autun, 321.

Auvergne, 15.

Auvers, 251.

Auxerre, 17, 119.

Avignon, 51, 260.

Azay-le-Rideau and Its Château, 10, 63, 140, 226, 238, 240-247.

Bacon, 40.

Ballon, 215.

Balue, Cardinal, 194, 196.

Balzac, Honoré de, 3, 6, 20, 128-129, 137-138, 143, 207-209, 234, 239, 329.

Bardi, Comte de, 108.

Barre, De la, 144, 240.

Barry, Madame du, 169, 215.

Beaudoin, Jean, 200.

Beaufort, A., 138.

Beaugency and Its Château, 9, 41, 48-53.

Beaujeau, Anne de, 319.

Beaulieu, 201-202.

Beauregard, Château de, 114-116.

Beauvron, The, 114.

Becket, 190.

Bélier, Guillaume, 258.

Bellanger, Stanislas, 135.

Bellay Family, Du, 5, 128, 234.

Belleau, Remy, 128.

Beringhem, Henri de, 245.

Bernay, 306.

Bernier, 57.

Berry, 7, 15, 56, 123, 313-314, 318, 320, 326-329.

Berry, Counts of, 150.

Berry, Duchesse de, 295.

Berthelot, Gilles, 244, 246.

Berthier, Maréchal, 108.

Beuvron, 87-88.

Biencourt, Marquis de, 246.

Blacas, Comte de, 247.

Blaisois, The, 52, 54, 56-84, 102, 123-124, 136, 148, 193, 322.

Bleneau, 319.

Blésois, The (See Blaisois, The).

Blois and Its Château, 3, 9, 11, 20, 40, 52-54, 56-84, 88, 94-95, 98, 100, 107, 110-112, 116-117, 119, 123, 125-126, 136, 139, 149, 156, 160, 164, 167, 174, 184, 186, 194, 260, 284.

Blois, Comtes de, 57-59, 62, 84, 87, 98, 118.

Blois, Forêt de, 54.

Blondel, 99.

Bocage, The, 304-305.

Bohier, Thomas, 174, 182, 184-186.

Bois-Tillac, 298.

Bolingbroke, 42, 183.

Bonchamps, 306-307.

Bonheur, Rosa, 306.

Bonneventure, Château de, 250.

Bontemps, Pierre, 105.

Bordeaux, 133, 171, 203, 292.

Bordeaux, Duc de, 108.

Bossebœuf, Abbé, 233.

Bouaye, 312.

Bouin, 311.

Boulogne, The, 312.

Bourbon, Cardinal de, 164.

Bourbon, Renée de, 264.

Bourbon-Lancy, 336.

Bourbonnais, 15.

Bourdaisière, Château de la, 169.

Bourg de Batz, 300.

Bourges, 15, 314, 316.

Bourgneuf-en-Retz, 309, 311.

Bourgogne, 4, 15, 142.

Bourgueil, 267.

Bourré, Jean, 233.

Boyer, 111.

Bracieux, 110.

Brain-sur-Allonnes, 269.

Brantôme, 101, 155, 157, 158.

Brenne, 135.

Bretagne, 15, 26, 35-36, 57, 192, 218, 284, 291-293, 301.

Bretagne, Anne de, 63, 97, 120, 168, 196, 209, 234, 236-238, 293, 296.

Bretagne, Conan, Duc de, 295.

Bretagne, François II., Duc de, 291, 294-296.

Brézé, Pierre de, 195.

Briare, 320, 330.

Briçonnet, Cardinal, 42.

Brinvilliers, 144.

Brittany (See Bretagne).

Broglie, Princesse de, 120.

Brosse, Pierre de, 234.

Bruges, 282.

Brunyer, Abel, 80, 81.

Buffon, 61, 183.

Bullion, 119.

Bussy d'Amboise, De, 269.

Buzay, Abbey of, 299.

Byron, 138.

Cæsar, 18, 290.

Cahors, 260.

Cail, M., 270-272.

Cain, 251.

Calixtus II., 264.

Canal de Brest à Nantes, 24.

Canal de Buzay, 298.

Canal d'Orleans, 36-37.

Canal du Nivernaise, 17, 335.

Canal Lateral, 12, 17, 318, 336.

Canal Maritime, 298.

Candes, 268-270, 276.

Castellane Family, 250.

Caumont, De, 195.

Cellini, 152.

Chalonnes, 24, 304.

Chambord and Its Château, 2-3, 20, 53, 79, 82, 84, 86, 94-110, 123, 139, 174, 186, 243, 247-248.

Chambord, Comte de, 109.

Chambris, 10.

Champagne, Counts of, 316.

Champeigne, 135.

Champtocé, 24.

Chanteloup, 154, 169.

Charlemagne, 206.

Charles I. (the Bald), 18, 193.

Charles II. of England, 82.

Charles V., Emperor, 130-131, 155, 194.

Charles VI., 257.

Charles VII., 150, 188-189, 194-195, 202, 233, 250, 254-256, 257-260, 268, 319, 324, 326.

Charles VIII., 45, 98, 130, 150, 165, 194-195, 234, 236, 238-239, 319.

Charles IX., 107, 122, 180.

Charles X., 329.

Charles Martel, 5.

Charles the Bold of Burgundy, 44.

Chartres, 22, 133.

Chartreuse du Liget, 190.

Châteaubriand, Comtesse de, 101, 130.

Château Chevigné, 22.

Château de la Fontaine, 43.

Château de la Source, 42-43.

Châteaudun and Its Castle, 21-22.

Châteaudun, Vicomtes de, 269.

Château Gaillard, 259.

Château l'Epinay, 22.

Châteauneuf-sur-Loire, 36, 84.

Châteauroux, 327.

Château Serrand, 22.

Chatillon, 12, 17, 19.

Chatillon, Cardinal de, 160.

Chatillon, Comtes de, 61, 68.

Chaumont and Its Château, 11, 20, 107, 110, 116-126, 140.

Chaumont, Charles de, 120.

Chaumont, Donatien Le Ray de, 123-125.

Chemillé, 304-305.

Chemille, Petronille de, 263.

Chenonceaux and Its Château, 10, 63, 107, 118, 140, 148, 165, 169, 171-187, 234, 243, 247, 251.

Cher, The, 10, 21, 91, 171-173, 177-178, 180, 183, 191, 215, 275, 313, 320, 324, 326-327.

Chevalier, Abbé, 243.

Cheverny and Its Château, 82, 110-114, 133.

Cheverny, Philippe Hurault, Comte de, 111.

Chicot, 201.

Chinon and Its Châteaux, 10, 92, 140, 171, 193, 202, 239, 241, 247, 250-261, 268.

Chinon, Forêt de, 241, 247.

Chiron-Tardiveau, 310.

Choiseul, Duc de, 164, 169.

Cholet, 275, 304-307.

Cholet, Comte de, 115.

Cinq-Mars and Its Ruins, 7, 21, 137, 220, 227-232, 238, 274.

Cinq-Mars, Henri, Marquis de, 228, 229-231, 234.

Cinq-Mars, Marquise de, 230, 231.

Claude of France, 72, 80, 97, 155.

Clément, Jacques, 78.

Clermont-Ferrand, 15.

Cléry, 32, 41, 44-46, 214.

Clisson and Its Château, 8, 303, 307.

Clisson, 293.

Clopinel, Jehan (See Jean de Meung).

Clouet, 112.

Clovis, 43, 149, 253.

Cœuvres, 170.

Coligny, 160-161.

Colletis, 309.

Colombe, Michel, 207-208, 295.

Commines, De, 45.

Condé, Prince de, 119, 160-161, 168, 319.

Conti, Princesse de, 234.

Cormeri, Citizen, 215.

Cormery, 133.

Cosne, 18, 314, 330.

Cosson, The, 2, 97-98, 101.

Coteau de Guignes, 52.

Couëron, 298.

Coulanges, M. de, 18.

Coulmiers, 40.

Cour-Cheverny, 110, 114, 133.

Cousin, Jean, 105.

Coutancière, Château of, 269.

Coxe, Miss, 125.

Créquy, Marquise de, 183.

Croix de Monteuse, 16.

Cromwell, 301.

Crussol, Mlle. de, 318.

Dalahaide, 77.

Dampierre, 280.

Dante, 203.

Danton, 144.

Daudet, 17, 335.

Decize, 336.

Delavigne, Casimir, 34.

Delorme, Marion, 230-231.

Delorme, Philibert, 321.

Deneux, Mlle., 215.

Descartes, 3, 208.

Digoin, 336.

Dijon, 15.

Dino, Duc de, 115.

Dive, The, 13.

Domfront, Château de, 9.

Doré, 207, 320.

Duban, 73.

Ducos, Roger, 164-165.

Dudevant, Madame (See Sand, George).

Duguesclin, 49.

Dumas, 3, 6, 47, 82, 201, 268-269, 294-295.

Dunois, The, 56.

Dupin, M. and Mme., 183, 187.

Duplessis-Mornay, 281.

Eckmühl, Prince, 42.

Effiats Family, D' (See Cinq-Mars).

Elbée, D', 307.

Eleanor of Portugal, 155.

Éléanore of Guienne, 267.

Embrun, 44, 45.

Epernon, Duc d', 194.

Este, Cardinal d', 180.

Estrées, Gabrielle d', 164, 169-170.

Étampes, Duchesse d', 101, 130-131, 155.

Étampes, Jacques d', 321.

Etretat, 251.

Eure et Loir, Department of, 35.

Falaise, Château de, 9.

Ferdinand VII. of Spain, 323.

Finistère, 35.

Flaubert, 6.

Foix, Marguerite de, 295-296.

Folie-Siffait, 26.

Fontainebleau, 97.

Fontaine des Sables Mouvants, 52.

Fontenelle, 183.

Fontenoy, 107.

Fontevrault, Abbey of, 3, 263-267, 282.

Force, Piganiol de la, 106.

Forez, Plain of, 17.

Fouché, 298.

Foulques Nerra, 93, 201, 232, 234.

Foulques V., 238.

Fouquet, 164, 294.

François I., 60-64, 69-70, 72-73, 75, 89, 94-99, 101, 104-107, 109, 114, 118, 130, 148, 151-156, 171-172, 174-176, 189-190, 194, 196-197, 200, 244-245, 264, 322.

François II., 156-162, 168, 181, 215.

Franklin, Benjamin, 123-124, 125.

Freiburg, 22.

Fromentin, 311.

Galles, Prince de, 49.

Gaston of Orleans, 59-60, 62, 68-70, 79-82.

Gatanais, The, 36.

Gatine, Forêt de, 324.

George IV., 169.

Gerbier-de-Jonc, 16, 336.

Gien and Its Château, 8, 18, 19, 202, 318-320, 330.

Gilly, 336.

Giverny, 251.

Gondi, Henri de, 293-294, 301-302.

Goujon, Jean, 105, 179, 244.

Gregory of Tours, 57.

Grise-Gonelle, Geoffroy, 195.

Grottoes of Ste. Radegonde, 218.

Guérande, 300.

Guise, Henri, Duc de (Le Balafré), 67, 69-70, 73-78, 157, 160, 162, 164, 168, 180, 234.

Haute Loire, Department of, 11.

Henri II., 69, 99, 107, 109, 115, 156, 158, 171-172, 174-177, 183-184, 197, 200.

Henri III., 69-70, 73, 75-78, 182, 195, 201, 334.

Henri IV. (de Navarre), 78, 164, 170, 201, 281, 293.

Henry II. of England, 190, 208, 238, 257-258, 267.

Henry VIII. of England, 107.

Holbein, 152.

Hugo, Victor, 37.

Huismes, 250.

Hurault, Philippe, 111, 112.

Ile de Yeu, 310-311.

Ile Feydeau, 298.

Ile Gloriette, 298.

Ile St. Jean, 149.

Ilot du Pilier, 310.

Indre, The, 10, 21, 191-192, 240, 243-244, 247, 275, 313, 326-327.

Indre et Loire, Département d', 142.

Jahel, Miss, 125.

James V. of Scotland, 157.

James, Henry, 14, 189, 204, 251.

Jargeau, 36.

Jean de Meung, 46-47.

Jean-sans-Peur, 319.

Jean-sans-Terre, 193, 267.

Jeanne d'Arc, 33-35, 38, 49, 319, 333.

Jeanne of France, 209.

John, King, 287.

Joué, 215.

Juvenet, 34.

Kleber, 306, 307.

La Beauce, 38, 41, 53, 87, 141.

"La Briche," 270-272.

Lac de Grand Lieu, 298-299, 311-312.

Lac d'Issarles, 16.

La Chapelle, 43.

La Charité, 17-18, 314-315, 319, 332-334.

La Châtre, 327.

La Chevrolière, 312.

Lafayette, Madame de, 109.

La Fontaine, 128, 286.

La Martinière, 298.

La Motte, 87-88.

Landais, 294.

Landes, Houdon des, 137.

Langeais and Its Château, 7, 21, 82, 133, 140, 165, 174, 224, 232-241, 247.

Languedoc, 15.

Lanoue, 293.

Lanterne de Rochecorbon, 220.

La Pointe, 13, 22-23, 284.

La Possonière, 289.

Larçay, 10.

La Rochelle, 208, 308.

Lauzun, 164.

Lavedan, 31-32.

Layon, The, 13.

Le Croisic, 300.

Le Havre, 27.

Lemaitre, Jules, 34.

Lemercier, 261-262.

Lenoir, 57.

Lenôtre, 43.

Lepage, 35.

Le Pellerin, 298.

Le Puy, 4-5, 10, 16, 137, 336.

Leray, M., 120.

Les Andelys, Château de, 9.

Lescure, 307.

Lespine, Jean de, 291.

Liger, The, 336.

Lille, 286.

Lille, Abbé de, 107.

"Limieul, La Demoiselle de" (See Tour, Isabelle de la).

Limousin, The, 109.

Lisieux, 92.

Loches and Its Châteaux, 3, 9-10, 130, 133, 140, 142, 188-202, 250, 266, 326.

Loches, Forêt de, 190.

Loir, The, 13, 21.

Loir et Cher, Department of the, 35, 57.

Loire, The, 1, 3-30, 32, 34-38, 40-41, 43, 50-51, 53-54, 56, 58, 64-65, 68, 92, 95-97, 101-102, 110, 116-118, 120-122, 124, 129, 133, 134, 137, 140-142, 148-149, 156, 163, 171, 173, 177-178, 191, 196, 208, 215, 220-223, 225, 227-228, 232, 236, 240, 257, 259-260, 267, 273, 275-276, 278-279, 282-286, 288-290, 292-293, 297-302, 304, 308-309, 311, 313-314, 318-319, 324, 326-327, 330, 332-334, 336.

Loiret, The, 41-43.

Loiret, Department of the, 35-36.

Lorraine, Cardinal de, 157, 180.

Lorraine, Marie de, 157.

Lorris, 37.

Lorris, Guillaume de, 37, 46.

Lot, The, 260.

Louet, The, 286.

Louis II. (Le Bègue), 150.

Louis IX. (See St. Louis).

Louis XI., 5, 32, 41, 44-46, 48, 69, 130-131, 150, 154, 194, 195, 211-212, 214-218, 232-233, 253, 257-258, 268, 281, 291.

Louis XII., 60-61, 64, 66, 83, 97, 120, 122, 151, 167, 194-195, 209, 215, 238, 294.

Louis XIII., 63, 99, 107, 139, 222, 224, 228, 230-231.

Louis XIV., 32, 82-83, 98-99, 107, 109, 111, 164, 215, 227, 232, 245, 247, 294, 319.

Louis XV., 54, 84, 107, 164, 169, 215.

Louis XVI., 32, 123.

Louis XVIII., 321, 329.

Louis Philippe, 165.

Louvre, The, 130, 285.

Lubin, M., 126.

Luynes and Its Château, 21, 222-227.

Luynes Family, 222, 224, 227, 234.

Lyonnais, 15.

Lyons, 16, 203, 286.

Lyons, Forêt de, 87.

Madon, 126.

Maillé, Comte de, 227.

Maine, The, 12-13, 21-23, 284, 288-290.

Maintenon, Madame de, 109.

Malines, 77.

Mame et Fils, Alfred, 205.

Mansart (elder), 62, 79.

Marguerites, The, 311.

Marie Antoinette, 328.

Marigny, De, 54.

Marmoutier, Abbey of, 218-220, 266.

Marques, Family of, 185.

Marsay, M. de, 190.

Marseilles, 27, 136, 203, 286, 292.

Martel, Geoffroy, 253.

Maulévrier, Château of, 303.

Mauves, Plain of, 26.

Mayenne, 21.

Mayenne, The, 21.

Mazarin, 6, 293, 301-302, 335.

Medici, Catherine de, 73-79, 107, 118-119, 122-123, 156-157, 160-162, 168, 175-182, 184-185.

Medici, Marie de, 194, 285.

Mehun-sur-Yevre and Its Château, 324-326.

Mello, Dreux de, 193.

Menars and Its Château, 53-54.

Mer, 52-53.

Metz, 40.

Meung-sur-Loire, 41, 44, 46-48.

Micy, Abbaye de, 43.

Mignard, 112.

Moine, The, 307-308.

Molière, 108.

Montbazon, 10.

Montespan, Madame de, 283.

Montesquieu, 183.

Montgomery, 158, 175.

Montjean, 24.

Montlivault, 53.

Montmorency, Connétable de, 174.

Montpellier, Castle of, 231.

Montpensier, Charles de, 154-155.

Montrichard and its Donjon, 9-10, 91-93.

Montsoreau, 268-270, 276.

Moraines, Château de (See Dampierre).

Moreau, 306.

Moret, 251.

Morrison, 81.

Mortagne, 307.

Mosnier, 112.

Moulins, 15.

Muides, 53.

Nahon, The, 320-321.

Nantes and Its Château, 3, 7-8, 12-13, 23, 25-28, 40, 59, 84, 133, 207, 278-279, 286, 288, 291-302, 308, 311-312.

Napoleon I., 83, 138, 164, 321-322.

Napoleon III., 88.

Napoleon, Louis, 165.

Narbonne, 231.

Navarre, Marguerite of (See Alençon, Marguerite d').

Nemours, Duc de, 157.

Nepveu, Pierre, 104.

Nevers, 4, 6, 11, 15, 17, 137, 319, 332-333, 335-336.

Nini, 125.

Nivernais, The, 15, 330, 332.

Nohant, 327-329.

Noirmoutier, 309-310.

Normandy, 85, 92, 306.

Ognon, The, 312.

Onzain, 116.

Orléannais, The, 4, 10, 15, 19, 23, 30-57, 318, 320-321.

Orléans, 7-8, 10-12, 15, 17, 19, 30-35, 37-41, 43, 52, 133, 137, 256, 258, 270, 284, 289.

Orleans Family, 63, 65-66, 69, 140, 165, 231, 234 (See also Gaston of Orleans).

Orleans, Forêt d', 39-40.

Oudon, 25-26, 291.

Paimbœuf, 298.

Paris, 13, 30, 33, 42, 79, 119, 124, 136, 139-140, 229-230, 284, 302, 314.

Parme, Duc de, 108.

Parmentier, 80.

Pas de Calais, 192.

Passay, 312.

Passy-sur-Seine, 124.

Pays de Retz, 292, 301-302, 310.

Penthièvre, Duc de, 164.

Pepin, 193.

Philippe I., 313, 326.

Philippe II. (Auguste), 93, 193, 238.

Philippe III. (Le Hardi), 234.

Philippe IV. (Le Bel), 49.

Pierrefonds, Château of, 186.

Pierre-Levée, 310.

Pilon, Germain, 105.

Pinaizeaux, 310.

Pius VI., 323.

Plantagenet, Henry (See Henry II. of England).

Plantin, Christopher, 205.

Plessis, Armand du (See Richelieu, Cardinal).

Plessis-les-Tours, 7, 150, 211-218, 334.

Pointe de Chenoulin, 310.

Poitiers, 304.

Poitiers, Diane de, 118, 123, 130, 155, 172, 174-178, 183, 187, 197.

Poitou, 278, 292, 306.

Pompadour, La, 215.

Poniatowska, Marie Thérèse, 323.

Pont Aven, 251.

Ponts de Cé, 21-22, 275, 279, 284-286.

Pornic, 308, 310.

Pornichet, 300.

Port Boulet, 270.

Pouilly, 18, 330-332.

Prairie-au-Duc, 298.

Primaticcio, 152.

Primatice, 99.

Puy-de-Dôme, 16.

Rabelais, François, 3, 128, 143-144, 239-240, 254-256, 260.

Rambouillet, Forêt de, 87.

Reims, 319.

Renaudie, Jean Barri de la, 161.

René, King, 23, 281.

Rennes, 15.

Retz, Cardinal de (See Gondi, Henri de).

Retz, Gilles de, 24, 293.

Rhine, The, 13, 26.

Rhône, The, 13, 23, 260.

Richard Cœur de Lion, 93, 193, 267.

Richelieu, 260-262.

Richelieu, Cardinal, 224, 228, 231-232, 260-262, 301-302.

Roanne, 12, 16-17, 336.

Rochecotte, 250.

Rochecotte, Château de, 249-250.

Romorantin and Its Château, 85, 88-89, 324.

Ronsard, 128, 157, 180, 240.

Rouen, 92, 119, 121-122, 203, 221, 299.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques, 172, 183-184, 187.

Roy, Lucien, 235.

Royale, Madame, 109.

Rubens, 285.

Ruggieri, Cosmo, 78-79, 122-123.

Russy, Forêt de, 114.

Saint Gelais, Guy de, 245.

Sancerre and Its Châteaux, 18, 137, 313-318, 330, 333.

Sancerre, Counts of, 314-316.

Sand, George, 7, 321, 326-329.

San Juste, Monastery of, 131.

Saône, The, 23.

Sardini, Scipion, 119.

Sarthe, The, 13, 21.

Saumur and Its Château, 21, 119-120, 142, 171, 221-222, 259, 274-283, 292.

Sausac, Château of, 202.

Sausac, Seigneur de, 215.

Savennières, 289.

Savoie, Louise de, 151.

Savoie, Philippe de, 195.

Saxe, Maurice de, 107-108.

Scott, Sir Walter, 166, 211, 216, 218.

Sedan, 40.

Seine, The, 4, 13, 25, 36, 121, 221.

Selles, 10, 324.

Sertio, 100.

Sévigné, Madame de, 18, 276, 295.

Sforza, Ludovic, 197.

Shenstone, 106.

Siegfreid, Jacques, 234.

Sologne, The, 38, 52-53, 56, 84-94, 97, 101, 110, 148, 320.

Sorel, Agnes, 152, 188-189, 194, 196, 201-202, 250, 326.

Staël, Madame de, 119-120.

St. Aignan and Its Château, 10, 312, 324.

Stanislas of Poland, King, 107-108.

St. Ay, 43-44.

St. Benoit-sur-Loire, 10, 19.

St. Claude, 54.

St. Cyr, 215.

St. Die, 53.

Ste. Eulalie, 336.

Stendahl, 128.

St. Etienne, 5, 16.

St. Florent, Abbey of, 282, 306.

St. Galmier, 16.

St. Georges-sur-Loire, 22.

St. Leger, 312.

St. Liphard, 48.

St. Louis, 37, 193, 288, 318.

St. Lumine, 312.

St. Mars, 312.

St. Martin, 5, 149, 209-211, 218, 220, 253, 268.

St. Mesme, 253.

St. Mesmin, 41, 43.

St. Nazaire, 23, 28, 292, 300.

Stofflet, 303, 306.

St. Ours, 193.

St. Philibert, 311-312.

St. Philibert, 310.

St. Pierre-le-Moutier, 333.

St. Rambert, 17.

St. Sauveur, 238.

Strasburg, 22.

St. Symphorien, 218.

St. Trinité, Abbey of, 266.

Stuart, Mary, 157-162, 168, 181.

St. Vallier, Comte de, 175, 197.

Suèvres, 53.

Sully, 19.

Talleyrand, 250, 321, 323.

Tasso, 180.

Tavers, 52.

Terry, Mr., 187.

Texier, 22.

Thézée, 10.

Thibaut-le-Tricheur, 259.

Thibaut III., 253.

Thiephanie, Dame, 281.

Thouet, The, 13.

Thoury, Comtesse, 105.

Torfou, 307.

Toulouse, 15.

Tour, Isabelle de la, 119.

Touraine, 1-4, 6-9, 15, 19-21, 23, 32, 54, 56, 79, 85, 92, 102, 105, 121, 128-148, 161, 164, 169, 172-173, 176, 183, 204, 215, 220, 229-230, 233-234, 238, 243-244, 246, 251, 260, 273, 275, 284, 332.

Touraine, Comtes de, 253.

Tours, 3, 4, 7, 8, 10-11, 20-21, 40, 57, 84, 116-117, 120, 132-133, 137, 148-149, 166, 171-172, 200, 203-211, 215, 221-222, 224-225, 238-239, 246, 253, 266, 274, 276-277, 320-321, 327.

Treves-Cunault, 283-284.

Turenne, 319.

Turner, 12.

Ussé and Its Château, 241, 247-249.

Valençay and Its Château, 320-324.

Valentine de Milan, 66.

Valentinois, Duchesse de (See Poitiers, Diane de).

Vallée du Vendomois, 274.

Valois, Marguerite de (sister of François I.) (See Alençon, Marguerite d').

Valois, Marguerite de (de Navarre), 180.

Van Eyck, 152.

Varennes, 218, 324.

Varennes, The, 135.

Vasari, 153.

Vauban, 247.

Vaudémont, Louise de, 182.

Vendôme, 22, 266.

Vendôme, César de, 164.

Vendomois, The, 56-57.

Veron, 135.

Versailles, 43, 60, 86, 98, 139, 261.

Vibraye, Marquis de, 111.

Vienne, The, 10, 21, 251, 259-260, 267-268, 275, 279.

Vierzon, 84-85, 324.

Vigny, Alfred de, 128-129.

Villandry, Château de, 238.

Villaumère, Château de la, 250.

Villon, François, 48.

Vinci, Leonardo da, 59, 72, 100, 152-153, 166, 169, 174.

Viollet-le-Duc, 185.

Vivarais Mountains, 16.

Voltaire, 42, 142, 183.

Vorey, 11, 16.

Vouvray, 222, 332.

Yonne, The, 17.

Young, Arthur, 86.

Zamet, Sebastian, 170.

Transcriber's Notes

1. Replaced chateau(x) with château(x) throughout the text (title pages and pp. xi, 1, 9, 62, 72, 327).

2. P. 36: added quotes after a verse.

3. P. 67: replaced "três" with "très" ("très beau et très agréable ainsy que tous ses portraits l'ont représenté...").

4. P. 83: added quotes after the phrase "magasin des subsistances militaires".

5. P. 86: added quotes after a phrase "those brilliant and ambitious gentlemen".

6. P. 94: "potions" are replaced with "portions" ("... moreover, one can drink large portions of it...").

7. P. 108: "know" is replaced with "known" ("The second floor is known as the...").

8. All instances of "Francois" are replaced with "François" (pp. 69, 171, 304, 338, 346).

9. P. 187: "Credit Foncier" is replaced by "Crédit Foncier".

10. P. 235: Replaced "irrelevent" with "irrelevant" ("...an over-luxuriant interpolation of irrelevant things...").

11. P. 290: Replaced "Andre" with "André" ("Maison André Leroy").

12. P. 296: Added quotes after a verse "Cueur de vertus orné Dignement couronné."

13. P. 314: Replaced "Etes-vous" with "Êtes-vous" ("Êtes-vous allé à...").

14. P. 322: Replaced "Valencay" with "Valençay" ("Château de Valençay").

15. Replaced "Eglise" with "Église" (illustration caption: "Église S. Aignan, Cosne").

16. Innkeepers, manorhouse, sandbar, Bellilocus, seaside, harbourside, headwaters, stairway, and waterways are chosen to be written without a hyphen.

17. Dining-table, wine-shops, and quatre-vingtz are chosen to be written with a hyphen.

18. P. 338: Replaced "Bréze" with "Brézé" (Brézé, Pierre de).

19. P. 269: Replaced "Chateaudun" with "Châteaudun" ("... the fief passed to the Vicomtes de Châteaudun...").

20. Pp. 12, 17, and 339: Replaced "Canal Lateral" with "Canal Latéral".

21. P. 344: Replaced "Orléans" with "Orleans".

22. P. 286: Quotes after the verse added ("... sur la Loire.").

23. P. 327: The (missing) closing quotes are added ("_petits chefs-d'oeuvre_ of sentiment and rustic poesy").