Excerpt from The Story of Christine RochefortTo the imaginative traveller there are few places that appeal more to the heart and intellect than the little gray town of Blois, nestling on the banks of the blue Loire, and surrounded by its noble forests. The kings that gave it fame in the far-off years have passed away, but the courtly robe they threw over their favorite place, though frayed and faded, is still worn with a regal air, and to the inward eye and ear shadows and echoes of the past are more real than the affairs of to-day.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.