LOVE LETTER 700 YEARS OLD.
A love letter of the thirteenth century has been discovered in a pillar of the Church of St. Peter, at MontMartre, m New York, by an architect, who was directing repairs in the olri church. The billet-doux, written on a piece of sheepskin in elegant Gothic characters, was written by a Jean de Gisors to a Mile. Aelis de Ijcsle, and contains expressions of the strongest admiration and affection. It is a mystery how the letter came to be hidden in a fissure of the pillar, but from the context it is surmised that the young woman was so happy to receive from her lover a written justification of her conduct which seems to have been unfavourably commented upon, that she placed it in the pillar as a votive offering before the altar of the Virgin. Eniart, the French savant, has succeeded in discovering that a Jean de Gisors lived in the thirteenth century, daring the reign of Louis IX., and took a prominent part in the wars of that time.
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Cromwell Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2008, 1 October 1906, Page 7
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176LOVE LETTER 700 YEARS OLD. Cromwell Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2008, 1 October 1906, Page 7
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