Excerpt from The Ch???teaux of Touraine It is to Chambord, however, that all the others lead. From the moment when the nobles, returning from their southern campaign, began to require light and air and space and orna ment, a change becomes apparent. Hitherto the baron had fared in such matters but little better than the poorest among his dependents; but now, in proportion as the dwellings of the rich expanded, those of the poor became more squalid; and Louis XIV, riding with unseeing eyes past the miserable hovels of the ...
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Excerpt from The Ch???teaux of Touraine It is to Chambord, however, that all the others lead. From the moment when the nobles, returning from their southern campaign, began to require light and air and space and orna ment, a change becomes apparent. Hitherto the baron had fared in such matters but little better than the poorest among his dependents; but now, in proportion as the dwellings of the rich expanded, those of the poor became more squalid; and Louis XIV, riding with unseeing eyes past the miserable hovels of the peasantry to find Chambord too small, is but a presage of the French Revolution. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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