Anatole France’s Merrie Tales: Five Fair Ladies of Picardy, of Poitou, of Touraine, of Lyons, and of Paris

A certain Brother Olivier Maillard’s sermon is recalled by a Capuchin monk, who describes it as “macaronic“. If macaroni is a pasta made without eggs, then what kind of text or speech could this be? One without a binding element such as proforms and antecedents? That could prove […]