Loir

I can't find any Montaire in France; much more likely the story refers to Montoire-sur-le-Loir, now more famous as being the place where Pétain and Hitler agreed on French collaboration with the Nazis in 1940, but which was certainly on the contested border between English and French zones of control at that phase of the Hundred Years 'War.

On being a fan, and the first half of Season Four nwhyte 2008

Loir [_sic_] had hitherto taken no notice of what had passed

Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father Daniel Jackson

In "Louis Lambert" he gives an interesting account of the college, which was in the middle of the town on the little river Loir, and contained a chapel, theatre, infirmary, bakery, and gardens.

Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings

(Loir-et-Cher), in a marly bank belonging to the most ancient part of the middle Tertiary formation, fragments of silex which bore traces of the action of fire.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883 Various

Loir_, a small silk purse, containing a few pieces of money, and a lady's miniature.

Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father Daniel Jackson

"Very well, then," Manuel says, by and by, "let us cross the Loir, and ride south to look for our infernal coronet with the rubies in it, and for your servants, and for some of your palaces."

Figures of Earth James Branch Cabell 1918

In front of the simple and noble façade of the slate-roofed castle, at the foot of the terrace, the Loir flows, brimful, between woods and meadows, the same river that fills such a great place in French literature, because of a distant relative of the Rochambeaus of old, Pierre de Ronsard.

Rochambeau and the French in America. I. From Unpublished Documents. IX 1916

Departments of Loiret and Loir et Cher, but in 1822 Loir et Cher was included in the new Diocese of Blois.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

Coextensive with the civil department of Loir-et-Cher and a suffragan of Paris.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

Its gentleness, persistency and increase -- are like those of his own small river the Loir.

Avril Being Essays on the Poetry of the French Renaissance Hilaire Belloc 1911