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It would be easy to multiply examples of this type of town, but we can only mention here a few whose history and customs are particularly instructive. One of the oldest is St. Riquier in Ponthieu, a notable instance of an industrial community dating from Carolingian times and fostered by the policy of a great religious house.
Only he was a little too robust Riquier. A charming voice, but he is too stout. You see, the square near the point. Tell me frankly. I should not hesitate; I hate black. Monsieur Well, my dear, if it leads you away, you must hold fast to something to save yourself. Madame Come, George, I am speaking seriously.
Not less prolific are the French houses: at Tours the handwriting called the Carolingian minuscule, the parent of our modern "Roman" printing, is developed, though not at Tours alone. Riquier by Abbeville, Rheims, and many another centre in Northern and Eastern France, libraries are accumulated and ancient books copied. Of St. Gall and Reichenau the same may be said.
In the thirteenth century we find Guirant Riquier, often called the last of the Troubadours, requesting King Alfonso X. of Castile to make a definite classification of Jongleurs, and title the best, thus preventing the indiscriminate mixing of high and low musicians in the public mind.
SCENE. The country in autumn The wind is blowing without MADAME, seated by the fireside in a large armchair, is engaged in needlework MONSIEUR, seated in front of her, is watching the flames of the fire A long silence. Monsieur Will you pass me the poker, my dear? Monsieur That is by Mehul, is it not, my dear? Ah! that is music I saw Delaunay Riquier in Joseph.
They lodged at the Hôtel de l'Angleterre, that hostelry in the street that leads up and out of the town towards Saint Riquier, which you enter from a courtyard that opens on the road and has rooms that you reach by means of narrow, rickety flights of stairs and balconies overhanging the court. The big dining-room wore an air of gloomy festivity.
Only he was a little too robust Riquier. A charming voice, but he is too stout. You see, the square near the point. Tell me frankly. I should not hesitate; I hate black. Monsieur Well, my dear, if it leads you away, you must hold fast to something to save yourself. Madame Come, George, I am speaking seriously.
Then turning to Riquier, "Hadst thou succored thy brother," said he, "he had assuredly not been bound;" and felled him likewise at his feet. Rignomer, king of the Franks of Le Mans, met the same fate, but not at the hands, only by the order, of Clovis. So Clovis remained sole king of the Franks, for all the independent chieftains had disappeared.
The Italian troubadours Bonifaci Calvo and Bartolomeo Zorzi were welcomed to his court, to which many others came from Provence. One of his favourites was the troubadour who was the last representative of the old school, Guiraut Riquier of Narbonne.
SCENE. The country in autumn The wind is blowing without MADAME, seated by the fireside in a large armchair, is engaged in needlework MONSIEUR, seated in front of her, is watching the flames of the fire A long silence. Monsieur Will you pass me the poker, my dear? Monsieur That is by Mehul, is it not, my dear? Ah! that is music I saw Delaunay Riquier in Joseph.
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