. Castles and chateaux of old Touraine and the Loire country. mausoleum was — in its old resting-place— opened in 1727, and a small, heart-shaped, gold box was found, supposed to havecontained the heart of the Duchesse Anne. Thecoffer was surmounted by a royal crown andemblazoned with the order of the Cordeliere,but within was found nothing but a the circlet of the crown was written in relief: Cueur de vertuB om6Dignement couronn^. And on the box beneath one read: En ce petit vaisseau, de fin or pur et munde, Repose un plus grand cueur que oncque dame eut au monde. Anne fut le nom
. Castles and chateaux of old Touraine and the Loire country. mausoleum was — in its old resting-place— opened in 1727, and a small, heart-shaped, gold box was found, supposed to havecontained the heart of the Duchesse Anne. Thecoffer was surmounted by a royal crown andemblazoned with the order of the Cordeliere,but within was found nothing but a the circlet of the crown was written in relief: Cueur de vertuB om6Dignement couronn^. And on the box beneath one read: En ce petit vaisseau, de fin or pur et munde, Repose un plus grand cueur que oncque dame eut au monde. Anne fut le nom delle, en France deux fois Royne Et ceste parte terrestre en grand deuil nos Janvier In one respect only has Nantes sufferedthrough the march of time. Its magnificentQuai de la Fosse has disappeared, a long fa-gade which a hundred or more years ago wa? Anjou and Bretagne 297 bordered by the palatial dwellings of the greatship-owners of the Nantes of a former genera-tion. The whole, immediately facing the river SAianQ/vSofsAOiArnss. m^ffukty where formerly swung many ships at anchor,has disappeared entirely to make way for therailway. The islands of the Loire opposite Nantes arean echo of the life of the metropolis itself. The 298 Old Touraine and the Loire Country He Feydeau is monumental, the He Gloriettehustling and nervous with affaires, andPrairie-au-Duc busy with industries of allsorts. Coueron, below Nantes on the right bank, issombre with gray walls surrounding its num-berless factories, and chimney-stacks belchingforth clouds of dense smoke. Behind are greatwalls of chalky-white rock crowned with ver-dure. Nearly opposite is the little town of LePellerin graciously seated on the rivers bankand marking the lower limit of the Loire Nan-taise. Another hill, belonging to the domain of Bois-Tillac and La Martiniere, where was bornFouche, the future Due dOtranta, comes toview, and the basin of the Loire enlarges intothe estuary, and all at once one f
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