I wrote you that I was having almonds shelled. I caused to be shelled about 50 loads<\/strong> [ed. A load is about 100 kilograms]<\/em>. To carry out this task, I had gathered every evening about 20 women. I taught them songs and made them laugh. Every evening at about eleven o’clock as they were leaving, I made them do a dance on the threshing floor with flaming torches.<\/strong><\/h5>\nOne day, I came up with the idea of accompanying this company to take by storm old lady Gondrane’s house. With this in mind, I brought a ladder with me which I propped up under the old lady’s window. I went up the ladder and began calling the worthy Gondrane by the sweetest names which occasioned great gusts of laughter from the accompanying throng. She responded most graciously. I called upon her to open the window for me; she was just about to do that when I found the means to open the window myself. The worthy lady did not know from whence came my voice; she thought I had climbed up on the roof. I thought it fitting to present her with a lantern in whose light she was able to see where I was located and that I was holding a bottle of white wine in my hand. It seems the old lady has a liking for this wholesome drink. So you can image her delight when she saw that her tastes were being catered to. After a little chat, I felt there was no more reason for caution. I entered her room and presented my group to her as they arrived by the same path I had taken. We performed a little dance, asked her to sing for us; without any more ado, she graciously sang Digne Janette for us. Upon which we bade her a good, holy and peaceful evening. She heaped blessings upon me, asking that God would grant her the gift of another such visit from me in ten years\u2019 time and would still have been going at it if we had not slipped out through the door.<\/strong><\/h5>\nSince we had a good thing going, I took the arm of Jean Jauffret Frijat’s wife who comes from Moustier and can sing. We went through the whole village followed by our entire company, singing and laughing. We stopped at the homes of those we knew enjoyed a good joke and called upon them so that they appeared at their windows and begged their permission to sing them some merry little songs. We then drew ourselves up in good order and royally entertained them. When we were sure that we had awakened the whole village, we went off to bed very pleased with our night’s adventure which had lasted until one o’clock in the morning.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\nLetter to his father, 31 October 1803, Mejanes library, Aix.<\/em><\/p>\nA glimpse of a young man\u00a0with a free spirit.<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cBeing young isn’t about age, it’s about being a free spirit. You can meet someone of 20 who’s boring and old, or you can meet someone of 70 who’s youthful and exciting.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lesley Lawson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cLord of the manor\u201d Eugene may have thought himself, but the lord also was involved in the harvest of one of the farm products at St. Laurent.\u00a0 This description of the 21 year-old\u2019s antics shows us a side of Eugene … Continue reading
Since we had a good thing going, I took the arm of Jean Jauffret Frijat’s wife who comes from Moustier and can sing. We went through the whole village followed by our entire company, singing and laughing. We stopped at the homes of those we knew enjoyed a good joke and called upon them so that they appeared at their windows and begged their permission to sing them some merry little songs. We then drew ourselves up in good order and royally entertained them. When we were sure that we had awakened the whole village, we went off to bed very pleased with our night’s adventure which had lasted until one o’clock in the morning.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\nLetter to his father, 31 October 1803, Mejanes library, Aix.<\/em><\/p>\nA glimpse of a young man\u00a0with a free spirit.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cBeing young isn’t about age, it’s about being a free spirit. You can meet someone of 20 who’s boring and old, or you can meet someone of 70 who’s youthful and exciting.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lesley Lawson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cLord of the manor\u201d Eugene may have thought himself, but the lord also was involved in the harvest of one of the farm products at St. Laurent.\u00a0 This description of the 21 year-old\u2019s antics shows us a side of Eugene … Continue reading
A glimpse of a young man\u00a0with a free spirit.<\/p>\n
\u201cBeing young isn’t about age, it’s about being a free spirit. You can meet someone of 20 who’s boring and old, or you can meet someone of 70 who’s youthful and exciting.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lesley Lawson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cLord of the manor\u201d Eugene may have thought himself, but the lord also was involved in the harvest of one of the farm products at St. Laurent.\u00a0 This description of the 21 year-old\u2019s antics shows us a side of Eugene … Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n