Now that Valentine's Day is about three weeks out, it is time to start the brain cells flaring. Baude Fresnel (aka Cordier) wrote this little ditty about 6 centuries ago and the manuscript graced perfume bottles (Chantilly - the piece is also found in the Chantilly Codex - a collection of music bound up in about 1400 near Rheims in France.
Next week, with Superbowl in the Cold, will be a lost weekend and with all the raging male psyches, there
will be plenty of making up to do. I do think it a little strange that Valentine's Day has become something of a "make good" day when the sins and neglects of the past are hopefully eradicated in a blaze of chocolate and perfume.
