“
I will honor Christmas in my heart and try to keep it year round
,” wrote Charles Dickens in
A Christmas Carol
.
Only children and perhaps a little poets know how to find, beyond the traditions that are handed over each year, the true spirit of Christmas.
To discover
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It is
"Festivals of the dreaming fir trees / With long languorous branches"
for Guillaume Apollinaire.
From the pen of William Chapman, it is a light, a gaiety that runs
"like an elf / from the smoky log house to the princely villa"
.
Finally, it is for Jean-Jacques Ampère
"the night of Christ, the miraculous night".
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mean ?
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you to check if you are really crazy about Christmas.