Philobiblon

Starting with the Bayeux tapestry – well in being a chronicle it is sort of like a blog, and now it has been animated – really, rather fun, I promise, even though it sounds a bit weird.

And nice to look back, since we’re all 10 years old today – this marking the date when the “first blog posting” was made. Of course no one had invented the title then…

Elsewhere in weekend history, “relics” of Joan of Arc are actually the remains of a mummy – please, no one tell Dan Brown; hate to think of what he’d manage to make of that.

And a brief history of chocolate records that it was a woman who helped to spread it around Europe. “It was reputedly a Spanish maid, La Molinilla, who took the secret from Spain to France with her mistress, Anne of Austria, when she married Louis XIII in 1651.”