Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres

Henry Adams

Capitolo 23

 Birds, cakes, game,
 There was everywhere for sale.
 Enough that he had who has the means to pay.


If you are not satisfied with this translation, some studious of
French it will easily help to do a best, for us we are not studying
the grammar or the archaeology, and it would be rather inaccurate in this way
you argue that not, if, to that price, a feeling freer than the art
you/he/she could be taken. Better anchor, you can turn to Chaucer that he/she wrote
his/her Pilgrimage of Canterbury two hundred years later:--

Whanne that April with his/her shoures sote
 The droughte of perced of hath of March to the rote...
 What a people of longen to gon on pilgrimages
 It is palmeres for to seken strange strondes...
 And especially, from every ende of the counties
 Of Englelonde, to their Canterbury the wende
 The holy blisfuls martyr for to seke,
 That edge hath holpen whan that they was seke.


The passion for pilgrimages was as far universal among our ancestors
back how we can trace them. For at least thousand years it was
their principal delight, and you/he/she is not extinguished yet. To feel the art of
Mont-Saint-Michel and it Rents us we owe again wandering becoming:
but, the point more interest is not so a lot of just now the pilgrim,
as the minstrel that sang to amuse him,--the jugleor or jongleur,--
who was at home in every abbey, castle or cottage, as to
every shrine. The jugleors became a jongleur and they degenerated in the
road-juggler;  the minstrel or menestrier, became very first a
word of the abuse, equivalent to give some scoundrel to;  and to start the
profession seems to socially have been condemned, as that of a
singer of music-room or ballet dancer in later times;  but in the eleventh
century, or perhaps first anchor, the jongleur seems to have been a
poet, and to have composed the songs he sang. The immense mass of
poetry known as the de of "Chansons Geste" it seems to have been composed
as sung by the unnamed Homers of France, and of all the stains in
the a lot of provinces where the French language in his many dialects
prevailed, Mont-Saint-Michel it would be due to be the favourites with the
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