, sur l'emplacement d'une maison de
plaisance
des comtes de Blois.
William Wordsworth
]
[Footnote U: Blois,
"Louis XII. , qui etait ne a Blois, y sejourna souvent, et
reconstruisit completement le chateau, ou la cour habita frequemment
au XVI'e. siecle. "
('Dict. Histor. de la France', Lalaune. ) The town is full of historical
reminiscences of Louis XII. , Francis I. , Henry III. , and Catherine and
Mary de Medici. Wordsworth went from Orleans to Blois, in the spring of
1792. --Ed. ]
[Footnote V: Claude, the daughter of Louis XII. --Ed. ]
[Footnote W: Chambord;
"celebre chateau du Blaisois (Loir-et-Cher), construit par Francois
I.
, sur l'emplacement d'une maison de plaisance des comtes de Blois.
Donne par Louis XV. a son beau-pere Stanislas, puis au Marechal de
Saxe, il revint ensuit a la couronne; et en 1777 Louis XVI. en accorda
la jouissance a la famille de Polignac. "
(Lalaune. )
A national subscription was got up in the 'twenties, under Charles X. ,
to present the chateau to the posthumous son of the Duc de Berry, who
afterwards became known as the Comte de Chambord, or Henri V. --Ed. ]
[Footnote X: The tale of 'Vaudracour and Julia'. (Mr. Carter, 1850. )]
[Footnote Y: The previous four lines are the opening ones of the poem
'Vaudracour and Julia'. (See p. 24. )--Ed. ]
[Footnote Z: The last five lines are almost a reproduction of the
concluding five in 'Vaudracour and Julia'.
[Footnote U: Blois,
"Louis XII. , qui etait ne a Blois, y sejourna souvent, et
reconstruisit completement le chateau, ou la cour habita frequemment
au XVI'e. siecle. "
('Dict. Histor. de la France', Lalaune. ) The town is full of historical
reminiscences of Louis XII. , Francis I. , Henry III. , and Catherine and
Mary de Medici. Wordsworth went from Orleans to Blois, in the spring of
1792. --Ed. ]
[Footnote V: Claude, the daughter of Louis XII. --Ed. ]
[Footnote W: Chambord;
"celebre chateau du Blaisois (Loir-et-Cher), construit par Francois
I.
, sur l'emplacement d'une maison de plaisance des comtes de Blois.
Donne par Louis XV. a son beau-pere Stanislas, puis au Marechal de
Saxe, il revint ensuit a la couronne; et en 1777 Louis XVI. en accorda
la jouissance a la famille de Polignac. "
(Lalaune. )
A national subscription was got up in the 'twenties, under Charles X. ,
to present the chateau to the posthumous son of the Duc de Berry, who
afterwards became known as the Comte de Chambord, or Henri V. --Ed. ]
[Footnote X: The tale of 'Vaudracour and Julia'. (Mr. Carter, 1850. )]
[Footnote Y: The previous four lines are the opening ones of the poem
'Vaudracour and Julia'. (See p. 24. )--Ed. ]
[Footnote Z: The last five lines are almost a reproduction of the
concluding five in 'Vaudracour and Julia'.
