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A virgin bore Fanouel by smelling the tree; and Fanouel having once come unawares to that tree of life, and cut a fruit from it, wiped his knife against his thigh, in which he inflicted a slight wound, and thus let in some of the juice. Presently his thigh began to swell, and eventually St. Anne was born therefrom."
"Hola!" cried Clopin, mounted once more upon his cask, "hola! women, females, is there among you, from the sorceress to her cat, a wench who wants this rascal? Hola, Colette la Charonne! Elisabeth Trouvain! Simone Jodouyne! Marie Piedebou! Thonne la Longue! Berarde Fanouel! Michelle Genaille! Claude Ronge-oreille! Mathurine Girorou! Hola! Isabeau-la-Thierrye! Come and see! A man for nothing!
First was to be born a knight, Fanouel, who, through the scent merely of the flower of that living tree, should be engendered in the womb of a virgin; and this knight again, without knowing woman, should give birth to St. Anne, the mother of the Virgin Mary. Both these wonders fell out as they were foretold.
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