Happy Valentine’s Day from France! | EUROtoday

Good morning,

I hope that you simply and yours are nicely.

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Did you already know that the primary recorded Valentine’s Day card was allegedly despatched from a French duke in 1415? Charles, Duke of Orleans, was imprisoned for 25 years within the Tower of London after being captured within the battle of Agincourt (very near the place I dwell in northern France) by the English, and wrote to his spouse Bonne of Armagnac, “I am already sick for love my very gentle Valentine.” In previous French: I’m already uninterested in love my tres doulce Valentinée.

Romance is revered in France and there are a great deal of tremendous romantic locations. In Paris there is a 40 sq. meter artwork set up known as Le mur des je t’aime – the I like you Wall. On it’s written in additional than 250 languages ​​“I love you” and it has turn into a rendezvous for lovers. And regardless of the most effective efforts of the authorities, folks proceed to place engraved lovelocks on bridges and railings within the metropolis of affection. In Annecy, Haute-Savoie, there’s a Pont des Amours, Lovers Bridge, and it is stated that if two lovers meet in the course of the bridge and kiss, they are going to keep collectively for ever.

Valentine’s Day occasions go on in every single place – in Strasbourg they’ve a 10-day celebration of affection on the Strasbourg Mon Amour pageant. In Roquemaure, within the Gard area, southern France, on Valentine’s Day they’ve La Festo de Poutoun, or the Festival of Kisses, the world’s first and up to now solely kissing pageant, which additionally celebrates the arrival of the relics of Saint Valentine within the city in 1868. And within the village of Saint Valentine within the coronary heart of the Loire Valley, the self-proclaimed “village of love” is embellished with pink roses and {couples} swear unending love by the Tree of Eternal Hearts.

This week I celebrated 25 years of marriage to the love of my life. He arrived one Saturday afternoon to repair my automotive (he was a mechanic and his quantity was the primary one I noticed in my native newspaper advert part!). I had no cash for luxuries and I’d purchased the very previous automotive for subsequent to nothing – and it broke down on my first drive. Mark knocked at my door, I opened it, our eyes met and we felt, because the French say, a coup de amour, actually a thunderbolt, or love at first sight! We’ve been collectively ever since (though he by no means did repair my automotive, it was past assist)!

Wishing you an excellent weekend, Happy Valentine’s Day from France
Kisses,
Janine,
Editor

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