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The Black Legend originated in the sixteenth century during the Protestant Reformation, with the beginnings of a rejection of Catholicism and abhorrence of the political and military power of Spain.
The plains and plateaus of Picardy in the north and Alsace to the east lend themselves to large-scale agriculture before ending in the gentler, rolling green fields of Normandy to the west and the vineyards of Burgundy that herald the beginnings of the south.
For years I have engaged in the often useful habit of reading Forewords, Prefaces, Prolegomena, Introductions, and other bits that appear at the beginnings of books.
Cowboy hyperbole demands that it be known as the “Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth,” a title dating back to its beginnings in 1912.
The palace’s royal chapel, St-Germain l’Auxerrois, dates back to 1200, but has preserved little of its Romanesque and Gothic beginnings.