Identifier: fieldsoffrancewi00ducl (find matches)
Title: The fields of France / with twenty illustrations in color
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Duclaux, Agnes Mary Frances (Robinson), 1857-1944 Macdougall, William Brown
Subjects: Peasantry
Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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in France. To this paradise ofthe Commanderie he brought his young wife; but—alas forour terrestrial Edens!—she died there before the year was out.When the widower followed her, he left the house to hiselder brother, a soldier of some note, who turned his swordinto a ploughshare, and devoted himself to his vineyards andcornfields. His daughter is mistress of the manor-houseto-day. As it stood when it came into her hands, the Com-manderie was a fit pavilion for a pair of lovers, but scarcelythe hospitable home of a numerous family. Much of ithad to be rebuilt and much restored. A story was added.One day, when the masons were taking down an ugly plasterceiling from a small room in the tower, there underneath they 50 I. THE COMMANDERIE AT BALLAN ^Tl TT in X Lt grow in•• with yers, eterri<;ns and forthcon need boundaric r^nd did by (leeds of mercy. :ze ana Iciciy died. TheHAJJAa TA 3lfl3aHAMMOO 3HT : ;to tlie hands of . t^xtended the ■iixdr-house :e!y ■ it ied. . :.tcr :hey
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A MANOR IN TOURAINE found, still solid, still fresh and clear, the ancient beams androof-trees of a distant century, painted with the coat-of-armsof the Knights of Malta. II It is in autumn that you should visit the Commanderie.The house, still relatively small, is picturesque, a long irregularpriory or manor-house, with lancet chapel-windows at one end,and in the centre a jutting pseudo-gothic turret that masksthe staircase. With its mullioned windows and grey wallshung with crimson creeper, it looks at first sight rather Scotchor English than French. The lawn that spreads in frontconfirms the impression. Our grass plots in France aregenerally left to grow for hay, and stand tall with flowersand seeding-grasses, save for a band clean shaven near thehouse. But my friend here is of Lord Bacons thinking:That nothing is more Pleasant to the Eye than GreeneGrasse kept finely shorn. A velvet lawn stretches betweenthe infrequent lovely beds heaped so high, where the tallcannas outflame the

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