Motoring aboard . nd all the more interesting on thisaccount, as many of the chateaux have beenmodernized and rebuilt to the point where in-terest in them is greatly impaired. The castleof Loches is built upon an enormous hill im-mediately overlooking the town. You couldspring from its ruined walls without touching athing upon the roofs of the houses far the court is the famous horse chestnuttree, a species which is native to France. Thistree, which is of enormous size, has often beendescribed. Its branches measure more thanone hundred feet across from tip to tip, and itis in a pe
Motoring aboard . nd all the more interesting on thisaccount, as many of the chateaux have beenmodernized and rebuilt to the point where in-terest in them is greatly impaired. The castleof Loches is built upon an enormous hill im-mediately overlooking the town. You couldspring from its ruined walls without touching athing upon the roofs of the houses far the court is the famous horse chestnuttree, a species which is native to France. Thistree, which is of enormous size, has often beendescribed. Its branches measure more thanone hundred feet across from tip to tip, and itis in a perfect state of preservation. The onlytree of its kind which is at all its equal in sizeand beauty is the tree in the private grounds ofBayard Stockton, Esq., at Princeton, New Jer-sey, and it is said that this tree was grown from asapling brought over from this famous tree atLoches, by General Lafayette. A sapling of thisPrinceton tree, presented to the author, is en-joying a flourishing growth upon his farm in 96. With the splendid signboards in France andthe perfect road maps we had little trouble inkeeping on the right road. 3n tje Jleart of tfje Chateau Country Connecticut, and may some day, it is hoped,reach such a dignified size that it will reflectcredit on its distinguished ancestors. Loches was greatly enjoyed by all of us. Itsgreat square keep, built in the eleventh centurywith walls of great thickness, its deep, dampdungeons down which we crawled and felt ourway, led by a dapper little woman whose candleinsisted on going out, leaving us in pitchy dark-ness, were intensely interesting and novel. Wewere shown the supports from which was hungin the gloomy confines of a tower the great ironcage in which Louis XI confined Cardinal LaBalue and several others whom he did not like,and the exquisite tomb of Agnes Sorel la Belledes Belles/ the mistress of Charles VII. Agneswas the lady who exerted herself so vigorouslyin an effort to have the English expelled fromFrance. You w
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