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// The Elm tree Legend

Around 1450, a young shepherd woman, Adeline, was wrongly accused to have been unfaithful to her fiancé Pierre with an english officer. To treat carefully the occupant, the council of the ancients judged her guilty and to be exposed naked under the tree of justice for one day. By sunset, she died of shame and sorrow.

The day after, on the trunk of the elm tree, precisely where Adeline had her head on, flowers blooming were seen, looking like a bridal white flowers bouquet. Since that moment, each year in may, white flowers bloom at the very same place

A unique tree to discover again and again, in front of the Saint Martin Church in downtown.

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