Author - Trudy Ordenana

Be My Valentine- A History of Love

I am already sick of love My very gentle Valentine.   These are lines of the very first valentine. It was written by Charles, Duke of Orléans in the fifteenth century.  He was caught at a battle during the French civil war and while imprisoned, he wrote and sent the letter to his wife Bonne of Armagnac. In this poem the duke is longing for his beloved and expresses a deep despair for not being with his beloved. Although, we can't be sure of...

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