St.Valentine's Day

History Valentine's day Everyone knows about the Saint Valentina, who helped in love connect, secretly crowned them. However, few people know that this was a special day in the 5th century BC and was born this day in Rome. Оn this day, people give each other flowers, gifts and greeting cards Valentines is a simple original gift on this day.  The young Frenchman, Charles, Duke of Orleans, is one of the earliest founders Valentines called "poetic or love letters". During his imprisonment in the tower in 1415 he sent a few verses or rhymed love letters to my wife, who was at that time in France. This was the first Valentine. During the fifteenth century Valentine looked like a figure pictured knight lady and Cupid, the sending an arrow to cut to the heart of a knight. During the seventeenth century people did their own Valentine. They wrote or poems written by them, either copied the poem of special brochures with poetry. In the 40s of the nineteenth century were introduced first mechanical Valentine. Figure or object on the card could move. Some Valentine's cards were in the form of skilfully made postcards with the rising of the drawings of exposing or had other various three-dimensional features. American Valentines After 1723, the number of American Valentines began to grow Privoz from England their "authors" - booklets containing a large number of poems and messages. They can be copied on paper with a gold edge or other decorative sheets. One popular booklet contained not only poems for men to send them women, in the style of "be my Valentine ", but also "answers"that women could return. 1906
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