See here for more stories of 1847 On 3 December 1847, Placide Cappeau, a wine merchant, abolitionist and poet, embarked upon a six-hour stagecoach ride from Mâcon to Dijon. He had been asked by Abbé Maurice Gilles, his parish priest, to pen a Christmas poem to commemorate a renovation of the church where he worshipped […]
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