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This Museum Dedicated: Finally, if you'd like a surprise—of which I now rob you—look up the Balzac House at the hamlet of Sache, near Azay-le-Rideau. In one of the rooms of this museum dedicated to France's geant litteraire is, of all things, a Jo Davidson Museum! The late, much-whiskered Jo was a frequent sojourner hereabouts and his heads of the literary great, more than a score of them, done in marble, bronze and terra cotta, are of utmost interest. The museum was opened in the summer of 1954.Chenonceaux, with its simple but good Hdtel du Eon Laboureur, is another logical center and, for the inner man, or woman, keep in mind the really wonderful fare of two simple restaurants which are "all food and no style," Hostellerie Gargantua (try its mouth-melting Omelette Gargamelle) at Chinon, and Hostellerie des Trots Marchands (roast duck), at Cheverny. Finally, if you'd like a surprise—of which I now rob you—look up the Balzac House at the hamlet of Sache, near Azay-le-Rideau. In one of the rooms of this museum dedicated to France's geant litteraire is, of all things, a Jo Davidson Museum! The late, much-whiskered Jo was a frequent sojourner hereabouts and his heads of the literary great, more than a score of them, done in marble, bronze and terra cotta, are of utmost interest. The museum was opened in the summer of 1954.
i SOPHIA, ha'ja so-fe'a, a noted structure Jibul (former Constantinople), Turkey, Jly a Christian church, then a mosque, and Ij museum. The most famous of Byzantine is, Hagia Sophia (or Sancta Sophia) was by Emperor Justinian and designed nius of Tralles and Isidorus of Miletus, flilding was begun in 532 and dedicated on 17, 537. As a result of an earthquake in irt of the work collapsed. It was rebuilt, s apex of the main dome raised about 20 |6 meters), by a later Isidorus, and com-1 in 563. |
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