. Castles and chateaux of old Touraine and the Loire country. e passes on tothe terrace near the foot of the Grosse Tour,called the Tour des Minimes. It is this towerwhich contains the escalier des voitures.The entrance is through an elegant porticoleading to the upper stories. Above anotherportico, leading from the terrace to the garden,is to be seen the emblem of Louis XII., the por-cupine, so common at Blois. In the fosse, which still remains on the gar-den side, was the universally installed jeiirde-paume, a favourite amusement throughout thecourts of Europe in the middle ages. At the base
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. Castles and chateaux of old Touraine and the Loire country. e passes on tothe terrace near the foot of the Grosse Tour, called the Tour des Minimes. It is this towerwhich contains the escalier des voitures.The entrance is through an elegant porticoleading to the upper stories. Above anotherportico, leading from the terrace to the garden, is to be seen the emblem of Louis XII., the por-cupine, so common at Blois. In the fosse, which still remains on the gar-den side, was the universally installed jeiirde-paume, a favourite amusement throughout thecourts of Europe in the middle ages. At the base of the chateau are clustered nu-merous old houses of the sixteenth century, but on the river-front these have been replaced 168 Old Touraine and the Loire Country with pretentious houses, cafes, automobile ga-rages, and other modern buildings. Near the Quai des Violettes are a series ofsubterranean chambers known as the Greniersde Cesar, dating from the sixteenth century. Even at this late day one can almost picturethe great characters in the drama of other. Cipher of Anne de Bretagne, Hotel de Ville, Amboise times who stalked majestically through theapartments, and over the very flagstones of thecourts and terraces which one treads to-day;Catherine de Medici with her ruffs and velvets;Henri de Guise with all his wiles; Conde theproud; the second Frangois, youthful but wise;his girl queen, loving and sad; and myriadsmore of all ranks and of all shades of morality, — all resplendent in the velvets and gold ofthe costume of their time. Amboise 169 Near the chateau is the Clos Luce, a Gothichabitation in whose oratory died Leonardo daVinci, on May 2, 1519. Immediately back of the chateau is the ForetdAmboise, the scene of many gay huntingparties when the court was here or at Chenon-ceaux, which one reaches by traversing theforest route. On the edge of this forest isChanteloup, remembered by most folk on ac-coimt of its atrocious Chinese-like pagoda, built of the debris of the Chat