![]() ![]() ![]() The hedges, along which strawberries, raspberries, and violets grow, are adorned with hawthorn, honeysuckle, and brambles whose brown, curving shoots burst forth with magnificent fruits and leaves. The clearings are feathered with tall and elegant ferns the fields of gorse and broom blaze with flowers that one may take at first glance for golden butterflies. The earth is covered over with daisies, pansies, jonquils, daffodils, hyacinths, buttercups, and anemones, like the wastelands around San Giovanni of Laterano and the Holy Cross of Jerusalem in Rome. The five birds that herald its appearance-the swallow, the oriole, the cuckoo, the quail, and the nightingale-arrive with the breezes that refuge in the bays of the Armorican peninsula. “Spring, in Brittany, is milder than spring in Paris, and bursts into flower three weeks earlier. ![]()
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