Three hundred and forty-eight years, six months, and nineteen days ago to-day, the Parisians awoke to the sound of all the bells in the triple circuit of the city, the university, and the town ringing a full peal.
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The sixth of January, 1482, is not, however, a day of which history has preserved the memory.
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There was nothing notable in the event which thus set the bells and the bourgeois of Paris in a ferment from early morning.
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