Bourges

Oh.

So Nivea is, where is that? Bourges.

Half an hour from Bourges, I think.

You should know this area.

This is like, is this Loire? Port

However, neither attempt at independence was destined to succeed.

Charles twice crossed the Loire in the year 731, defeated Udo in battle, apparently near the city of Bourges, and returned home with great booty, having effectually checked the separatist designs of the Aquitanian chief.

About the same time, apparently, Abderrahman, the legitimate representative of the Caliph of Damascus, overthrew the Berber chief Minutsa and hunted him into the Pyrenees, where he was overtaken while resting by a fountain.

Minutsa fell pierced with many wounds, and his bride, Udo's daughter, was sent to end her days in the Caliph's harem.

His father had been murdered by some of the Dauphin's supporters at the bridge of Montereau on the Seine in 1419.

Between Philip and the English, the King of Bourges, as the Dauphin was satirically called, seemed to have little chance.

In 1423 the Anglo-Burgundian forces defeated the French with their Scottish allies at Cabon on the Yonne in the east of France.

Next year James I, the Scottish king who for 18 years had been captive in the Tower of London, was released on condition of paying a ransom and recalling the Scottish soldiers from France.

The result of the victory of Verneuil was that the English were now predominant in all the land north of the Loire with the exception of a few towns on the river itself.

The war dragged on for four years more before anything decisive happened.

The English were hampered by the lack of strong financial support from home, while the King of Bourges had to witness a renewal of internecine war between some of his own followers.

Meanwhile, Bedford was steadily building up a solid English government in the conquered territory, and in 1428 the Council at Paris decided that the time was ripe for a further advance to be made.

At the end of the year 1883, I was transferred to the horse batteries of the First Independent Cavalry Division at Paris.

On the 12th of September 1889, I received my commission of captain in the 21st Regiment of Artillery and was appointed on special service at the Ecole Centrale de Pyrotechnie Militaire at Bourges.

It was in the course of the following winter that I became engaged to Mademoiselle Lucie Adamar, my devoted and heroic wife.

During my engagement, I prepared myself for the Ecole Superieure de Guerre, School for Staff Officers, where I was received the 20th of April 1890.

Thus upheld you must resist.

We must both resist together.

Pierre amused himself this morning by looking at all my photographs of you, on horseback, on your travels at Bourges.

He was happy in showing them to his little sister and rattling off every thought that entered his head.

At the end of the year eighteen eighty three I was transferred to the horse batteries of the First Independent Cavalry Division at Paris.

On the twelfth of September eighteen eighty nine I received my commission of captain in the twenty first Regiment of Artillery, and was appointed on special service at the Ecole Centrale de Pyrotechnie Militaire at Bourges.

It was in the course of the following winter that I became engaged to Mademoiselle Lucie Adamar, my devoted and heroic wife.

During my engagement I prepared myself for the Ecole Superieure de Guerre, school for staff officers, where I was received the twentieth of April eighteen ninety.

But you have a great soul, a will of iron, an absolutely pure conscience.

Thus upheld you must resist.

We must both resist together Pierre amused himself this morning by looking at all my photographs of you on horseback, on your travels at Bourges.

He was happy in showing them to his little sister and rattling off every thought that entered his head.

At the end of the year 1883, I was transferred to the horse batteries of the 1st Independent Cavalry Division at Paris.

On the twelfth of September, eighteen eighty-nine, I received my commission of captain in the twenty-first regiment of artillery and was appointed on special service at the cole Centrale de Pyrotechnie Militaire at Bourges.

It was in the course of the following winter that I became engaged to Mademoiselle Lucie Othomar, my devoted and heroic wife.

During my engagement I prepared myself for the cole Sup rieure de Guerre, school for staff officers, where I was received the twentieth of April, eighteen ninety.

Thus upheld you must resist.

We must both resist together.

Pierre amused himself this morning by looking at all my photographs of you, on horseback, on your travels, at Bourges.

He was happy in showing them to his little sister and rattling off every thought that entered his head.

But from Dinan, a more history-loving traveler will take the diligence to the nearest station on the main railroad and retrace the way as far as Laman.

diverging their southward to Tours, and so follow for a time the Loire, along which so many kingly châteaux are found, either going via Bourges, Moulins, Lyon, and Geneva into Switzerland, or taking Amboise, Chenonceau, Blois, and Orléans on the return route for Paris.

Tours has a fine Gothic cathedral with a strikingly rich ornamental facade dating from the 15th century, besides some stained glass that will arrest the visitor for a long morning before going on to Amboise, where the castle conspicuous on the great cliff was long the residence of the French kings.

One can mount from below to the summit of this height, by following a broad, winding passage, up which carriages were wont to drive the ascent is made so gradually within the tower.