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    Père Antoine's Date-Palm
    Père Antoine's Date-Palm
    Père Antoine's Date-Palm
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    Père Antoine's Date-Palm

    By Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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    Thomas Bailey Aldrich

    Thomas Bailey Aldrich; November 11, 1836 – March 19, 1907) was an American writer, poet, critic, and editor. He is notable for his long editorship of The Atlantic Monthly, during which he published works by Charles W. Chesnutt and others. He was also known for his semi-autobiographical book The Story of a Bad Boy, which established the "bad boy's book" sub genre in nineteenth-century American literature, and for his poetry, which included "The Unguarded Gates" (Wikipedia)

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      Title: Père Antoine's Date-Palm

      Author: Thomas Bailey Aldrich

      Release Date: November 6, 2007 [EBook #23361]

      Last Updated: November 30, 2012

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PÈRE ANTOINE'S DATE-PALM ***

      Produced by David Widger

      PÈRE ANTOINE'S DATE-PALM.

      By Thomas Bailey Aldrich

      Boston And New York Houghton Mifflin Company

      Copyright, 1873, 1885, and 1901

      Near the Levée, and not far from the old French Cathedral in the Place d'Armes, at New Orleans, stands a fine date-palm, thirty feet in height, spreading its broad leaves in the alien air as hardily as if its sinuous roots were sucking strength from their native earth.

      Sir Charles Lyell, in his Second Visit to the United States, mentions this exotic: The tree is seventy or eighty years old; for Père Antoine, a Roman Catholic priest, who died about twenty years ago, told Mr. Bringier that he planted it himself, when he was young. In his will he provided that they who succeeded to this lot of ground should forfeit it if they cut down the palm.

      Wishing to learn something of Père Antoine's history, Sir Charles Lyell made inquiries among the ancient créole inhabitants of the faubourg. That the old priest,

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