Crossword-Solution: PLESSIS 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

The chateaus of Chambord, Amboise, Blois, Chenonceaux, Chaumont, Plessis-les-Tours, all those which the mistresses of kings, financiers, and nobles built at Veretz, Azay-le-Rideau, Usse, Villandri, Valencay, Chanteloup, Duretal, some of which have disappeared, though most of them still remain, are admirable relics which remind us of the marvels of a period that is little understood by the literary sect of the Middle-agists.

When the Crown annexed the county of Blois to its domain, Louis XII., who had a liking for this residence (perhaps to escape Plessis of sinister memory), built at the back of the first building another building, facing east and west, which connected the chateau of the counts of Blois with the rest of the old structures, of which nothing now remains but the vast hall in which the States-general were held under Henri III.

The lady strolled along the bank of the Loire towards Plessis inhaling like a fish the fine freshness of the water, toying, sauntering like a little mouse who wishes to see and taste everything.

Armand du Plessis, who aimed to be poet as well as statesman, read here in his youth a thesis on love.

Reports of the gendarmerie, February 24, 1792, and the following days.--Letter of the sergeant of Limours, March 2; of the manager of the farm of Plessis-le-Comte, February 23.] [Footnote 3227: "Archives Nationales," F7, 3268 and 3269, passim.--Memorandum to the National Assembly by the citizens of Rambouillet, September 17, 1792.] [Footnote 3228: "Archives Nationales," F7 3268 and 3269, Passim.