ILLUSTRATIONS
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The Château of ChenonceauFrontispiece
From the painting by Debat Ponson.
(With permission of Ad. Braun et Cie.)
Portion of the Roof of the Château of Chambord2
Château of Azay le Rideau6
Francis I.10
From the painting by Titian.
Door of the Chapel, Château of Amboise16
Henry, Duke of Montmorenci, Marshal of France24
From a portrait by Balthasar Moncornet.
The Chevalier Bayard40
After A. de Neuville.
(By permission of Estes & Lauriat.)
Queen Elinor44
Château of Amboise48
Duchesse d’Étampes52
Château de Chambord56
Spiral Staircase, Château of Blois78
(By permission of Neurdein, Paris.)
Couçy86
The Gardens of the Tuileries, Paris90
A Gate of the Louvre, after St. Bartholomew’s Day102
Charles IX.106
From the painting by Clouet.
Henri de Guise122
From a drawing in the Louvre.
(By permission of A. Giraudon, Paris.)
Notre-Dame, Paris126
Admiral Gaspard de Coligny132
From a drawing by François Clouet.
(By permission of A. Giraudon, Paris.)
Catherine de Médicis140
Château de Blois150
Henry IV.158
From a contemporary painting in the Museum at Versailles.
Diana de Poitiers, by Jean Goujon164
From the Château of Anet, now in the Louvre.
(By permission of Levy, Paris.)
The Cascade of St. Cloud174
From an engraving by Rigaud.
General View of Fontainebleau190
From an old print.
Marie de Médicis204
From a steel engraving.
Couçy—Interior, Showing Thickness of Walls218
Louis XIII., King of France and Navarre232
From an old print.
Cardinal Richelieu270
Château of Nantes280