“We must go over to the left bank again. Not far from the meeting of the Indre and the Loire, the roofs of the château of Ussé are hidden in the shadow of a dense forest. At the beginning of the eleventh century, the former château belonging to the Bueil family was said to be in the Devil's hands; for its lord was so tempestuous and terrifying a character that he was called ‘the Devil of Saumur’ and the neighbouring monks preferred even the grim Foulque Nerra.”
Levron’s beautifully illustrated survey of the Loire Valley, the country of the Châteaux, focused on the four provinces of Orléanais (capital Orléans), Blésois (capital Blois), Touraine (capital Tours) and Anjou (capital Angers).
Author: Jacques Levron
Title: Chateaux of the Loire
Edition: First English edition, first printing
Published: London: Nicholas Kaye, 1963
Physical Description: Hardcover; Octavo; 257p
Condition: Fair condition dust jacket with rubbing to surfaces, edge wear, heavy chipping, and toning—in new protector. Boards and spine clean with edge wear, bumping to corners, light rubbing to surfaces, and crushing at spine ends. Binding sturdy and square. Pages toned. Vintage bookseller sticker on front paste-down.
Comments: Handsome copy
