I learned Poisson d'Avril in French class too, but I don't know any more
about it. I suspect the whole April Fool thing is much older than the
founding of America, though.
Kate Bunting
Librarian and 17th century reenactor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 16/01/2006 19:12
Sylvia Rognstad wrote:
If you mean
April fool's is a European Holiday that came over to the America's. I
believe is started in France.
Allegedly, Prior to the Gregorian calendar, new year's day was celebrated in
France on April 1st. Charles IX changed the French calendar to Gregorian and
since news travels slow in them thar days
If you mean April Fools' Day, Robin, we do have that in Europe too!
Kate Bunting
Librarian and 17th century reenactor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 14/01/2006 14:56
Hi, Onaree. MCT is an annual journal; it's scheduled to come out every
spring, in time for the Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo early in May.
On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Kate M Bunting wrote:
If you mean April Fools' Day, Robin, we do have that in Europe too!
Ooh, I didn't know that! Thanks!
Now I can tease my publisher ;-)
--Robin
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On Jan 16, 2006, at 9:45 AM, Robin Netherton wrote:
On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Kate M Bunting wrote:
If you mean April Fools' Day, Robin, we do have that in Europe too!
I learned that when I was six years old and my mother took me and my
sister to Europe for 3 months. On April 1, I found that
