FRANCE BUILDS A MONUMENT TO CHEESE.
There has been 1 raised in France a great' figure in stone, unique and strange. It repi-esents a simple country woran ira the costume: of Normandy, a maid 1 whose name was Marie Harel. The article 1 of food she originated' is known over the world. One morning recently the guests of a: little 1 hotel' in .Normandy were much* excited over a voluble little' gentleman who spoke an. unknown tongue 1 and repeated over, and over the words "Marie Harel" and 'ICam'emibert cheese." The Mayor alcne could understand him. He was Dir. Kerwrim. and he told the Mayor he had restored imny persons health with Camemibert ! cheese. He had brought a wreath to: lay on the tomb of the maid whom few persons knew, and' he wanted to start a movement for a. great monument to her memory. The Mayor; was astonished at what' he heard. But the little stranger aroused the village, and the monument was built/ Camem'berti cheesel now is made in many countries, but anybody in Pnance will tell-you no cheese in thte whole- world tastes so goods a® what M'arj'e used to make.
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LIII, Issue 5532, 27 September 1929, Page 1
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194FRANCE BUILDS A MONUMENT TO CHEESE. Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LIII, Issue 5532, 27 September 1929, Page 1
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