. Castles and chateaux of old Touraine and the Loire country. the sixteenth century, andProtestants and Catholics became its occupantsin turn. Virtually La Charite-sur-Loire be-came a Protestant stronghold in spite of itsCatholic foundation. In 1577 it bade defiance to the royal arins ofthe Due dAlengon, as is recounted by the fol-lowing lines: «0u allez-vous, h^las I furieux in sensesCherchabt de Charity la proie et la ruine,Qui sans Iombre de Foj abbatre la pensezi Le canon ne peut rien centre la Charity,Plus tot vous d^truira la paste et la famine,Car jamais sans Foy naurez la Charity. In s
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. Castles and chateaux of old Touraine and the Loire country. the sixteenth century, andProtestants and Catholics became its occupantsin turn. Virtually La Charite-sur-Loire be-came a Protestant stronghold in spite of itsCatholic foundation. In 1577 it bade defiance to the royal arins ofthe Due dAlengon, as is recounted by the fol-lowing lines: «0u allez-vous, h^las I furieux in sensesCherchabt de Charity la proie et la ruine, Qui sans Iombre de Foj abbatre la pensezi Le canon ne peut rien centre la Charity, Plus tot vous d^truira la paste et la famine, Car jamais sans Foy naurez la Charity. In spite of this defiance it capitulated, and, on the 15th of May, at the chateau of Ples-sis-les-Tours on the Loire, Henri III. cele-brated the victory of his brother by a fete uUra-galante, where, in place of the usualpages, there were employed des dames ves-tues en habits dhommes. . Surely a fan-tastic and immodest manner of celebrating avictory against religious opponents; but, likemany of the customs of the time, the fete wassimply a fanatical debauch.. ^^^CCi