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Romance of the French abbeys (1905)

Champney, Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams), 1850-1922 · New York, London, G.P. Putnam's Sons · leaf 318

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treasure hid in his field andcoveted by the Abbot of St. Ouen, he hadhis own secret reason for not desiring to partwith the meadow, for here, and nowhere elsein France, grew certain wild plants which hehad mingled with garden herbs and distilledinto a liqueur so adorable that he believedit worthy… … The Green Dragon of Fecamp 229 Seigneur de Bailleul, and that it had beengranted for a peculiar service. Though the Seigneur feared neither Godnor man he was horribly afraid of hobgoblins.His castle was at a considerable distance fromFecamp, at the foot of a range of hills calledthe Falaise du…

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