Take This Column and Stuff It

The Washington Post | November 22, 1990| | Copyright

One day a shepherd boy was out walking with his sheep along the Champs Elyse'es in Paris when he tripped over a Bouche Noel. In anger he kicked it and found this scroll underneath explaining Thanksgiving to the French.

Victor Hugo translated the document, and since then it has provided enlightenment to generations of French citizens who never understood what Americans did in November. The original scroll rests in a glass pavilion designed by I.M. Pei at the Louvre.

One of our most important holidays is Thanksgiving Day, known in France as le Jour de Merci Donnant.

Le Jour de Merci ...

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