. Castles and chateaux of old Touraine and the Loire country. now, she said. And such is thesimplicity of the French provincial, even to-day— sometimes. CHAPTER Vn. AMBOISB As one approaches Amboise, he leaves thecomparatively insalubrious plain of the So-logne and the Blaisois and enters Touraine. Amboise! What history has been madethere; what a wealth of action its memoriesrecall, and what splendour, gaiety, and sadnessits walls have held! An entire book might bewritten about the scenes which took place underits roof. To-day most travellers are content to rushover its apartments, gaze at its
. Castles and chateaux of old Touraine and the Loire country. now, she said. And such is thesimplicity of the French provincial, even to-day— sometimes. CHAPTER Vn. AMBOISB As one approaches Amboise, he leaves thecomparatively insalubrious plain of the So-logne and the Blaisois and enters Touraine. Amboise! What history has been madethere; what a wealth of action its memoriesrecall, and what splendour, gaiety, and sadnessits walls have held! An entire book might bewritten about the scenes which took place underits roof. To-day most travellers are content to rushover its apartments, gaze at its great roundtower, view the Loire, which is here quite atits best, from the battlements, and, after a briefadmiration of the wonderfully sculptured por-tal of its chapel, make their way to Chenon-ceaux, or to the gay little metropolis of Tours. No matter whither one turns his steps fromAmboise, he will not soon forget this great for-tress-chateau and the memories of the petitebande of blondes and brunettes who followedin the wake of FranQois Premier. 148. Chateau dAmboise Amboise 149 Here, and at Blois, the recollections of tMslittle band are strong in the minds of studentsof romance and history. Some one has saidthat along the corridors of Amboise one stillmay meet the wraiths of those who in formerdays went airily from one pleasure to another,but this of course depends upon the mood andsentiment of the visitor. Amboise has a very good imitation of theclimatfe of the south, and the glitter of the Loireat midday in June is about as torrid a pictureas one can paint in a northern clime. It is notthat it is so very hot in degree, but that thelack of shade-trees along its quays gives Am-boise a shimmering resemblance to a muchwarmer place than it really is. The Loire isnone too ample here, and frets its way, as itdoes through most of its lower course, throughbanks of sand and pebbles in a more or lessvain effort to look cool, Amboise is old, for, under the name of Am-batia, it ex
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