Tourainian

Although born in Touraine, Balzac was not of Tourainian stock, for his birthplace was due merely to chance.

Honore de Balzac Albert Keim 1911

Rabelais showed him, beneath the letter, the Tourainian sun shining on the hot rock above Chinon, on the maze of narrow, climbing streets, on the high-pitched, gabled roofs, on the grey-blue _tourelles_, pricking upward from the fantastic labyrinth of walls.

The Hill of Dreams Arthur Machen 1905

In a cellar of Gargantuan abode he hid away a fine heap of red wheat, beside twenty jars of mustard and several delicacies, such as plums and Tourainian rolls, articles of a dessert,

Droll Stories — Complete Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine Honor�� de Balzac 1824

The poor little Tourainian in despair murmured, "May I come back when your passion is over?"

Droll Stories — Volume 1 Honor�� de Balzac 1824

In fact, the daughter of King Louis thought more of her royalty than of the roguish dozen, which she considered as nothing, since fancying she had had her night's amusement without loosening her purse-strings, she preferred the difficult recital of his claim to another dozen offered her by the Tourainian.

Droll Stories — Complete Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine Honor�� de Balzac 1824

"The thing is clear enough," said Messire Adam Fumee, a Tourainian, who at that time was the keeper of the seals.

Droll Stories — Complete Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine Honor�� de Balzac 1824

One day the Dauphine, niece of the Pope, said laughingly to the Queen of Navarre, who did not dislike these little jokes, "that this page was a plaster to cure every ache," which caused the pretty little Tourainian to blush, because, being only sixteen, he took this gallantry as a reproach.

Droll Stories — Volume 1 Honor�� de Balzac 1824

Add to this that he was a Tourainian, id est, dark, and had in his eyes flame to light, and water to quench all the domestic furnaces that required lighting or quenching; and never since at Azay has been such vicar seen!

Droll Stories — Volume 1 Honor�� de Balzac 1824

The poor Tourainian, more dead than alive, and expecting the devil was about to interfere seriously with his arrangements, rose and said,

Droll Stories — Volume 1 Honor�� de Balzac 1824

Tourainian, who still found in his misery the courage to smile at his mistress, who had the majesty of a full-blown rose, ears like shoes, and the complexion of a sick cat, but was so well-dressed, so fine in figure, so royal of foot, and so queenly in carriage, that he might still find in this affair means to gain his original object.

Droll Stories — Complete Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine Honor�� de Balzac 1824