Le tour de la France par deux enfants, chs. XCIV – Maine, Anjou, Touraine

Previous Location: Bretagne

Google Map (in progress)

See the Pinchon Map for Maine, Anjou, Touraine

Chapter XCIV – Julien reads about the provinces of Maine, Anjou, and Touraine and their great men – Ambroise Paré, David d’Angers, and René Descartes.

Videos: Pays de Loire and La Loire des jardins from Echappées belles; L’Anjou, de Saumur aux méandres de la Loire – Les 100 lieux qu’il faut voir – Documentaire complet, La troglo à plumes – Maine-et-Loire – La Maison Préférée des Français, LA TOURAINE – Les 100 lieux qu’il faut voir – Documentaire complet from Le Pays préféré des Français.

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Longfellow’s Poems of Places

Anjou

Angers in Maine-et-Loire

Angiers by William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

Angiers by William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

Touraine

Chenonceaux

The Banks of the Cher by Antoine-Marie Lemièrre (1723–1793)

Chinon

Chinon by Robert Southey (1774–1843)

23 March – Saint Benedict the Solitary

Modern Hagiography

Bibliotheca Sanctorum

Roman Martyrology

Our Birthday Bouquet Culled from the Shrines of the Saints and the Gardens of the Poets by Eleanor C. Donnelly.

Pictorial Half Hours with the Saints by Auguste François Lecanu.

Medieval Hagiography

BHL

Acta Sanctorum

Art & Architecture

Caractéristiques des saints dans l’art populaire by Charles Cahier – feu.

23 March – Saint Victorian, Saint Frumentius, & Companions

Modern Hagiography

Bibliotheca Sanctorum

Martyrologium Romanum

Roman Martyrology

Sanctorale Catholicum

Lives of the Saints by Alban Butler.

Lives of the Saints by Sabine Baring-Gould.

Character Calendar

Pictorial Lives of the Saints

La vie des saints

Medieval Hagiography

Acta Sanctorum

The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity Database

The account of their martyrdom should be in Victor of Vita. History of the Vandal Persecution, but it is not in the public domain.

Art & Architecture

Portail Biblissima

Saints and their Emblems

Caractéristiques des saints dans l’art populaire by Charles Cahier – meule.