Ribald Classic:the Silent Wife

August, 1972

If You Had Happened to be a muscular, headstrong young Provençal nobleman in the year 1248, nothing would have appealed to you more than the thought of cutting off Saracen heads in Egypt. Thus, if your name had been Vicomte Jean de Puysaurin, you would have been preparing eagerly to sail with King Louis IX. on his crusade. Among the happy visions of battle against the infidels, only one small, persistent idea would remain to trouble your mind.This was a lively, shapely, warmblooded idea. It was...

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