The archaeological album; or, Museum of national antiquities (1845)
Wright, Thomas, 1810-1877, Fairholt, F. W. (Frederick William), 1814-1866 · London, Chapman and Hall · leaf 218
1GI THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL ALBUM. and similar institutions arc met with at Valenciennes, Douai, Bouchain, Langres, &c. Sin h also "as the Society of Mother-fool (la societe de la mere-folle) at Dijon, founded in 1482 ; a number of curious documents relating to which were published by Du Tilliot, … chapter of Laon refer to this festival, in which it appears that the choristers went in procession through the town. On the eve of St. Nicholas, in winter, they elected a bishop of Innocents, and in the same church there was elected a patriarch of fools. In 1 5 1 8 a man was condemned to prison for…
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