The '^'Country Life" Library 



TWENTY-FIVE GREAT 

 HOUSES OF FRANCE 



By SIR THEODORE ANDREA COOK, M.A., F.S.A. 



WITH AN INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER OUTLINING THE 

 DEVELOPMENT OF FRENCH DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE 



By W. H. WARD, M.A., F.S.A., F.R.I.B.A. 

 Illustrations by Frederick H. Evans. 



Large folio, containing over 400 superb illustrations, plans and diagrams, with 

 a map of France showing the position of each Chateau. Half hound in buck- 

 ram, £2 I2S. 6d. net; in half morocco, £3 as. 6i. net ; postage is. extra. 



In this important work Sir Theodore Andrea Cook, author of " Old 

 Touraine," " Old Provence," " Rouen," etc. , perhaps the most sympathetic 

 and sldlful English writer on French history and the romantic associations 

 which linger around the Chateaux of France, presents a pageant of the 

 great figures who surrounded the throne of such kings as Franfois Premier 

 and Louis Quatorze. Louis of Orleans alt Perrefonds, the Duke of Guise at 

 Blois, Fouquet at Vaux le Vicomte, and Conde at Chantilly — these are 

 typical of the story that the author unfolds, with a grasp so sure that the 

 men and women live again, while their great houses are depicted with a 

 wealth of illustration never before achieved or attempted. 



SMALL COUNTRY HOUSES : 



THEIR REPAIR AND ENLARGEMENT 



Forty Examples Chosen from Five Centuries 



By LAWRENCE WEAVER. 



Large quarto, cloth, gilt, i8s. gd. net. By post {inland) 19s. dd. 

 Foreign and Colonial post, 215. Qd. Nearly 250 pages and 300 



illustrations. 



The growing tendency to rescue old buildings from neglect 

 and the important problems which are raised by such work 

 prompted the issue of this book. Detailed descriptions 

 reveal how houses of bygone days have been re-equipped as 

 modern needs demand, without destroying the witness they 

 bear to the old traditions of building. Incidentally, the 

 author has shown in how many cases the records of modest 

 little houses have been preserved, and how intimately their 

 local story is woven into the larger fabric of national history. 

 The book is an invaluable guide to all who are desirous of 

 repairing an old house, and who wish to achieve it in the right 

 spirit. 



