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Carrie Chappell
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"The 1659 Treaty of the Pyrenees defined the frontier between France and Spain as 'the crest of the Pyrenees', but more than two centuries passed before the snowy battlements were measured accurately and the people of the high Pyrenees found out whether they were Spanish or French."
— Jul 03, 2015 01:40PM
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Carrie Chappell
is on page 343 of 455
"There are Bretons still alive who remember the mortifying difficulty of learning French—'a language whose words were like half-empty boxes, and you weren't even quite sure what was inside them'—and the endless insults from sneering teachers and patronizing newspaper articles."
— Jul 19, 2015 08:20AM
Carrie Chappell
is on page 140 of 455
"The usual speed for an earth-shattering piece of news travelling over a hundred miles was between 4 and 7 mph. Le Havre heard about the fall of the Bastille (late afternoon, 14 July 1789) in the early hours of 17 July."
— Jun 19, 2015 03:21AM
Carrie Chappell
is on page 106 of 455
"In a rare surviving love note, written on a postcard in the 1900s in almost indecipherable spelling, a Vendée peasant told his fiancée, 'You're so fresh and lovely the only thing I can compare you to is fields of young cabbages before the caterpillars have got to them.'"
— Jun 11, 2015 05:46AM
