VOLUME CXXXIIOCTOBER 20. 1927NUMBER 2531
THE
AMERICAN ARCH ITECT
FOUNDED 1876
SAUMUR AND ANGERS
Two Ancient Cities of the Anjou
Notes and Sketches by Samuel Chamberlain
JUST beyond the Touraine, out of range of the charabancs and megaphone wielders, is a winesoaked, chateau-dotted bit of France known as the Anjou. Visitors dash through its placid stretches, madly bent for Brittany, ignoring the fact that they will encounter nothing so restful as the pastoral plains of the Anjou, nothing more imposing than its feudal chateaux, nothing so enticing as the douceur of its wines. Despite its importance on the map of France and its rich historical past, the Anjou remains modest and unexploited, reserving her treasures for those who
are willing to hunt them out. And there are no more happy hunting grounds than the sites of its two most noted cities, Saumur and Angers.
Saumur is a classic little place, huddling under the gray heights of a bellicose chateau, a former walled town, long since shorn of its fortifications, courageously imbedded on the windswept banks of the Loire. All that remains is a delicate vignette along the river front, a profile of spiny fleches, of gilded weather vanes and steep slate roofs which glisten silver in the sunlight. Historically it is as ancient as the dolmens which repose on its out
OLD ANGERS
{Copyright, 1927, The Architectural & Building Press, Inc.)
THE
AMERICAN ARCH ITECT
FOUNDED 1876
SAUMUR AND ANGERS
Two Ancient Cities of the Anjou
Notes and Sketches by Samuel Chamberlain
JUST beyond the Touraine, out of range of the charabancs and megaphone wielders, is a winesoaked, chateau-dotted bit of France known as the Anjou. Visitors dash through its placid stretches, madly bent for Brittany, ignoring the fact that they will encounter nothing so restful as the pastoral plains of the Anjou, nothing more imposing than its feudal chateaux, nothing so enticing as the douceur of its wines. Despite its importance on the map of France and its rich historical past, the Anjou remains modest and unexploited, reserving her treasures for those who
are willing to hunt them out. And there are no more happy hunting grounds than the sites of its two most noted cities, Saumur and Angers.
Saumur is a classic little place, huddling under the gray heights of a bellicose chateau, a former walled town, long since shorn of its fortifications, courageously imbedded on the windswept banks of the Loire. All that remains is a delicate vignette along the river front, a profile of spiny fleches, of gilded weather vanes and steep slate roofs which glisten silver in the sunlight. Historically it is as ancient as the dolmens which repose on its out
OLD ANGERS
{Copyright, 1927, The Architectural & Building Press, Inc.)