The book The Christmas Kalends of Provence And Some Other was written by author Janvier Thomas Allibone Here you can read free online of The Christmas Kalends of Provence And Some Other book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Christmas Kalends of Provence And Some Other a good or bad book?
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But what held us most was the gay dash of tri-colour on its bridge, and the crowd there evidently waiting for our com- ing to manifest toward us their good will. They cheered us and waved their hats and handkerchiefs at us, those poet-lovers, as we neared them; and as we passed beneath the bridge a huge wreath of laurel was swung downward to our deck, and a shower of laurel branches fluttered down upon us through the sunlit air. In all the fourteen centuries since Viviers w r as founded I am co...nfident that nothing more gracious than this tribute to 184 Tcast'Day on the Rftotu passing Poetry is recorded in the history of the town. Naturally, being capable of such an act of nicely discriminating courtesy, Viviers has sound traditions of learning and of gentle blood. In its day it was a great episcopal city : whose bishops maintained an army, struck money, counted princes among their vassals, in set terms defied the power of the King of France and recognized not the ex- istence of any temporal sovereign until the Third Conrad of Germany enlarged their knowledge of political geography by taking their city by storm.
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