Crossword-Solution: CHINON 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Joan and her two squires rode on and on, until they came to Chinon, where she was, after some doubt, admitted into the Dauphin’s presence.

The deputation arrived at Chinon to find Coeur-de-Lion dead; but John was anxious to make friends everywhere, in order to secure himself on his uncertain throne.

With the courage of a child that fears no failure, in which there is something really chivalrous, I determined to search every chateau in Touraine, travelling on foot, and saying to myself as each old tower came in sight, “She is there!” Accordingly, of a Thursday morning I left Tours by the barrier of Saint-Eloy, crossed the bridges of Saint-Sauveur, reached Poncher whose every house I examined, and took the road to Chinon.

This road, which joins that of Chinon beyond Ballan, skirts an undulating plain to the little hamlet of Artanne.

The roads to the great farms all opened on an avenue which followed a straight line from Clochegourde to the main road leading to Chinon.