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2004—Haute Courtoisie |
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  Yes, the name’s corny: guilty as charged. Had we become the proprietors, the black sign I designed* would have hung on the front porch, unless Valerie managed to talk me out of it. |
 General Curtis on the bank of the Mississippi, at the bottom of the bluff he lived on, and we nearly did. |
| It was Union Major General Samuel Ryan Curtis, victor of the battle of Pea Ridge, Arkansas, on the winning side (though not commander) at that of Bynum’s Ford, sometime Mayor of Keokuk and a congressman from Iowa, who built and occupied the house in which we almost got to spend our remaining days. |
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*Can’t help it: I do get a kick out of stringing together obscure associations. I paid “fonts.com” some bucks (forget just how many) for this pre-Gutenberg typeface which they called Clairvaux. Because it brought to mind St Bernard, something of a clerical nemesis of my royal Plantagenet 26th great-grandparents Henry and Eleanor. Grandma, as you may recall, was known as “la reine des troubadours” and as “l’inspiratrice de l’amour courtois.” Can’t use the font any more though, without paying fonts.com for it, again. Apple put out a new operating system, you see… |
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