Besides the well-known historic chateaux of Chaumont, Chenonceaux, Azay-le-Rideau, Maintenon, Dampierre, Josselin, Valencay, and scores of others, there are quantities of small Louis XV chateaux and manoirs, half hidden in a corner of a forest, which the stranger never sees.

AT PAUBy H.A. Taine CHATEAUX IN THE VALLEY OF THE LOIREBy Henry Wadsworth Longfellow AMBOISEBy Theodore Andrea Cook BLOISBy Francis Miltoun CHAMBORDBy Theodore Andrea Cook CHENONCEAUXBy Francis Miltoun FOIXBy Francis Miltoun *

Amelie and I did not say a word to each other until we reached the road that turns off to the Chateau de Conde; but I did speak to a man on horseback, who proved to be the intendant of one of the chateaux at Daumartin, and with another who was the mayor.

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We found the chateaux on the banks of the Seine very numerous; many were of great magnitude, and flanked by magnificent woods, the greater number being clipped into the appearance of walls, and cut out into long avenues and arcades, intersecting each other at right angles, in the very worst taste, according to the English idea of landscape-gardening.