Identifier: wanderingsbyloir00ritc (find matches)
Title: Wanderings by the Loire
Year: 1833 (1830s)
Authors: Ritchie, Leitch, 1800?-1865 Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851
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Publisher: London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman Paris : Rittner and Goupil
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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declaredto be in the wrong, and expiated their mistake by losingtheir heads on the Place du Bouffay. A little lower down, on the same side of the river,we pass a very extensive fortress, apparently still moreancient than the tower of Oudon. It is one of thosecreations which in France and Scotland are termedfolies. The term signifies any thing odd and uselessin architecture; and in the present case is applied to amodern imitation of an ancient edifice. There is, per-haps, no harm in us, creatures of to-day, thus launchingforth the anathemas of what we call taste against sopaltry a deception ; but where, after all, is the realdifference between the tower of Oudon and its modernrival? In a little while they will both be a heap ofruins. The former will be traced by the yet unbornantiquary to the Francs or the Romans ; and the latterclassed with those monuments of antiquity, whose originis lost in the night of ages. Alas for human pride ! Isour noblest edifice any thing else than a folly ?
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