TWENTY-FIVE GREAT HOUSES OF FRANCE
By SIR THEODORE ANDREA COOK, M.A., F.S.A.
WITH AN INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER OUTLINING THE DEVELOPMENT OF FRENCH DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE
By W.H. WARD, M.A., F.S.A., F.R.I.B.A.
Illustrations by Frederick H. Evans.
Large folio, containing over 400 superb illustrations, plans and diagrams, with a map of France showing the position of each Chateau. Half bound in buckram, £2 12s. 6d. net; in half morocco, £3 2s. 6d. net; postage 1s. extra.
In this important work Sir Theodore Andrea Cook, author of "Old Touraine," "Old Provence," "Rouen," etc., perhaps the most sympathetic and skilful English writer on French history and the romantic associations which linger around the Chateaux of France, presents a pageant of the great figures who surrounded the throne of such kings as François Premier and Louis Quatorze. Louis of Orleans at Perrefonds, the Duke of Guise at Blois, Fouquet at Vaux le Vicomte, and Condé at Chantilly—these are typical of the story that the author unfolds, with a grasp so sure that the men and women live again, while their great houses are depicted with a wealth of illustration never before achieved or attempted.