THE PERFECT FRENCH HOUSE
A mile or. two farther on in that forest I came upon my vision of the , perfect house in the French fashion: . a chateau of the eighteenth century . or later, which had not only gone clear away from the feudal idea of turreted building, but freed itself, too, from the stiffness of the Grand Siecle. It had a lovely emplacement dn a broad clearing among : skilfully -planted tree-clumps "facing down to a tiny stream; it looked so habitable, so spacious and so gracious, distinguished and yet easy, sitting on the. ground as if it had settled down like a resting partridge; ' it might rise up if you. clapped your hands at it.—Stephen Gwynn, in "In Praise of France."
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Shannon News, 23 October 1928, Page 4
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122THE PERFECT FRENCH HOUSE Shannon News, 23 October 1928, Page 4
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