By Blanche McManus
BOSTON
L. C. PAGE & COMPANY
1910
Copyright, 1910.
By L. C. Page & Company.
(INCORPORATED)
All rights reserved
First Impression, November, 1910
Printed by
THE COLONIAL PRESS
C. H. Simonds & Co., Boston, U. S. A.
WORKS OF
FRANCIS MILTOUN
| Rambles on the Riviera | $2.50 |
| Rambles in Normandy | 2.50 |
| Rambles in Brittany | 2.50 |
| The Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine | 2.50 |
| The Cathedrals of Northern France | 2.50 |
| The Cathedrals of Southern France | 2.50 |
| In the Land of Mosques and Minarets | 3.00 |
| Royal Palaces and Parks of France | 3.00 |
| Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country | 3.00 |
| Castles and Chateaux of Old Navarre and the Basque Provinces | 3.00 |
| Castles and Chateaux of Old Burgundy and the Border Provinces | 3.00 |
| Italian Highways and Byways from a Motor Car | 3.00 |
| The Automobilist Abroad | net 3.00 |
| (Postage Extra) |
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Preface
"A thousand years ago, by the rim of a tiny spring, a monk who had avowed himself to the cult of Saint Saturnin, robed, cowled and sandalled, knelt down to say a prayer to his beloved patron saint. Again he came, this time followed by more of his kind, and a wooden cross was planted by the side of the "Fontaine Belle Eau," by this time become a place of pious pilgrimage. After the monk came a king, the latter to hunt in the neighbouring forest."
It was this old account of fact, or legend, that led the author and illustrator of this book to a full realization of the wealth of historic and romantic incidents connected with the French royal parks and palaces, incidents which the makers of guidebooks have passed over in favour of the, presumably, more important, well authenticated facts of history which are often the bare recitals of political rises and falls and dull chronologies of building up and tearing down.