LOVE LETTER 700 YEARS OLD.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 8, Issue 13, 12 February 1907, Page 2

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, in New York, by an architect, who was directing repairs in the old 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 dc Loslo, 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. Enlart, the French savant, has succeeded in discovering that a Jean de Gisors lived in the thirteenth century, during the reign of Louis IX., and took a prominent part in the wars of that time.