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our I once made in the Touraine, I determined to build my » get the designs made by a French architect who was familiar knowledge and experience of the architecture of that period xteenth century style, on which I had long set my heart, was site I had selected, and more uncommon than the Tudor, so many and such unique specimens. Besides, I may mention ymas, the then most eminent English landscape gardener, had | not deign to divulge. “ouraine, Waddesdon would appear a pigmy. The Castle of mallest of which would dwarf the largest of Waddesdon. But ers from Maintenon, the Chateau of the Duc de Noailles, and , which are unglazed and open to the weather, are much more dream in stone and mortar like Chenonceaux, M. Destailleur’s acity in his profession. He was a purist in style, painstaking, During the eighteen years of my relations with him there jut he was dilatory and unpractical. He had not the faintest sacrificed the most urgent household requirements to external ontempt for ventilation, light, air, and all internal conveniences. ie and his numerous family lived huddled together in a small never entered without a shudder. It took me many an hour gowns and their toilette, and men want rooms in which they ns. The delay in the first start, however, was only partly his 3