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Show CHAMBORD MAY- BE TAKEN BY FRANCE Rich and Interesting Chateau District of Tourainc Is Included in Sequestered Seques-tered Enemy Property. r-LOIS. Kran..-.?. S-;.i. 1.1. - i Dy ;he As-social-d 1'ri i The domain k Chani-b"rd, Chani-b"rd, ori' .! ht- riehfst and mt-'M interest inter-est ihk of Do: e ha lean districts of Tou-riiuif, Tou-riiuif, and vhti ii a meiu'ied in tlio s-'-'jut-.-t t-rud en- i;:y I'rop'.-rly tn Kranet.-, will be '-'intj tli" pi'pcity cf the slate it a I petit ii'ii Ms'im t praci te.tily ih-; entii i adult popiiiu.on uf the department ol tlie j Luir-el-' h.-r is granted. (.'hamb.-rd, wii.eli i"i' ears lias Pc'-n 'isittd annuaJy l llious.inds ot tourists, tour-ists, w as a hunt preserve in UK1, w iien Francos I b- .m tu translurm it mtu a P-'val country seat. Since then it has serv.-d as a irMdt iiee for Htnrv II, ''harles JX. Louis XIII. Loins XIV, Stanislas and the last cunt uf ('ham- bord. pretender to the t nrone of 1' ranee under thu title of Hnry '. un the death "f Henty S, the elder branch of t1:-- D urU"ii family became etmet and tlo.- d'.miain uf L'lianibi'nJ. with its magnificent iienais.-ance chateau, cha-teau, passed into Hie hands, of Spanish Ut'Uilr.'ns. The dozen or moro princes who had an rntereL in the irope:'iy at the outbreak Of t bo war were divided in their sympathies. sympa-thies. Two of the princes of Buurbon farm a, Slxtu and Xavior, t ought with the allies in thu UelK'an army, others fought Hgainst them with the Austrian?. 1 Ono of the pi in cot ses of the family, who became empress cf Austria, was sus- peeled in t he cent nil empires of luke-warmnesa luke-warmnesa toward tlieir cause. Tlie question ques-tion now has arisen how to distinguish between friend and foe in such eases. On one point the people of Touraine are agreed, and that is that, the occasion for the state to take possession of the property prop-erty should not be missed. |