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The Loire: A Cultural History
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Author
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Martin Garrett.
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Oxford
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paperback
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9780199768394
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221/2010
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23282
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Gustave Flaubert called the Loire "the most French of French rivers." The longest river in France and the most varied in scenery and moods, it begins as a mountain stream in the Ardèche and issues, 630 miles later, into the Atlantic beyond the port of St.-Nazaire. Martin Garrett follows the Loire's course through Orléans, Blois, Tours, and Nantes (the former capital of Brittany), passing vineyards, forests, medieval fortresses, flamboyant Renaissance palaces, and buildings by le Corbusier. He also traces the river's history, from the days of feuding warlords and barons to the battles of 1940, and considers authors from Du Bellay and Balzac to Virginia Woolf, who have written along its banks.
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