Henry Debraye

Author knows some history and many personages. Verses are curiously translated from the French, photographs -- of chateaux, troglodyte dwellings, sculpture, riparian redux -- are editorially-matched to this conversation.

Examples:

10 "We are indeed in the heart of France." "As far back as Roman days, important roads converged there." "Tours ...was the rock against which broke the flood of Saracen invasion. The situation of Tours did more for the fame and fortune of the shrine of St. Martin than did its own sanctity." !!… (mere)