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diff --git a/macros/latex/contrib/hletter/Testletter1.tex b/macros/latex/contrib/hletter/Testletter1.tex new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..8d91a1d258 --- /dev/null +++ b/macros/latex/contrib/hletter/Testletter1.tex @@ -0,0 +1,139 @@ +%\documentclass[12pt,english,draft]{hletter} +%\documentclass[12pt,english,brian]{hletter} +%\documentclass[11pt,english,test,draft]{hletter} +%\documentclass[12pt,english,zora]{hletter} +%\documentclass[11pt,german,private]{hletter} +\documentclass[11pt,french,bruni]{hletter} + +% private = 1 +% signit = 2 +% bruni = 3 + +\begin{document} +%\border{240mm}{border} + +\signature{Sir Frederick Treves\\Sergeant-Surgeon to His Majesty the King} + +\reference{Impressions of the journey from Vevey to Lausanne.} + +\date{Lausanne, le 15 septembre 1922} + +\begin{letter}{M. Francois Marie Arouet \\ + 6, rue du Grand Ch\^{e}ne \\ + \textbf{Lausanne} \\ + Switzerland} + +% if you want the top-right text to be in [..]s use {..} as well: +\opening[{[COPY]}]{Dear Voltaire,} + +Cully, midway between Vevey and Lausanne, is a little town of 1,100 +inhabitants. It can look back very far into the past, for there was a time +when the lounger on the beach of Cully would have seen in the bay a lake +village, an amphibious camp made up of thatched roofs and huts on a submerged +field of piles. Later on the idler would have seen Roman legionaries and +Roman merchants halting by the road, since Cully seems to have been a posting +station or wayside caravanserai of some significance. + +Cully, from its earliest days, has been devoted to the making of wine. +It has probably made wine ever since wine-making was known in Europe. +It makes wine still and makes it well and, indeed, does nothing else. +Grapes and the winepress are the symbols of its being, the subject of +its thoughts and the mark of its ambition. A bunch of grapes on a +branch constitutes the ancient arms of Cully. They are grapes, it may +be noticed, of such size and quality that they would seem to proclaim +to the world, \emph{these are the grapes of Cully.} Someone, inspired +by a sense of the fitness of things, has surmised that there was once a +temple to Bacchus at Cully, but unfortunately the suggestion is +unfounded. There are, however, other memorials which may prove as +significant. One day in the year 1832 a man digging in a vineyard by +Cully unearthed a little bronze statuette of a Bacchante. It would seem +to tell the story of a Roman wine-grower whose admiration of Bacchus +was such that he kept this figure in his house. When the barbarians +were seen to be swarming over the hills above Cully one can imagine him +taking the image from its niche and hiding it among his vines. One must +further suppose that he was killed or made prisoner, since certain it +is that he never came back to claim the figure he cherished. So for +nearly two thousand years a votary of Bacchus lay hid in the vineyards +of Cully. + +The records of Cully go back to the 10th.\ century. It once belonged to the +bishops\footnote{The bishop princes of the old regime.}, who did little but +quarrel about their claims since the town was in the ecclesiastical parish of +Villette. It seems to have been only feebly fortified, but possessed in 1577 +both a \emph{carcan} and a \emph{virolet}\@. The former was a collar for the +neck of criminals exposed to public view, and the latter a cage in which they +were confined for convenient exhibition, to the delight, no doubt, of the +boys of the place.\footnote{\emph{Carcans} of various types are to be seen in +the Vevey Museum.} + + +Cully is an interesting spot in many ways. It has, in the first place, +the most picturesque promenade on the Lake, a wide, leisurely promenade +dignified by a row of fine old Lombardy poplars. On this parade is a +monument to Major Davel, who was a \emph{bourgeois} of Cully. The +gallant Davel raised the standard of rebellion in 1723 with the forlorn +hope of ridding Vaud of the dominion of Berne. He failed, and was +executed at Vidy, near Lausanne, on April 24th, 1723. + +A still more charming feature of this unpretentious town is displayed +by the number of old houses that it contains, and especially by their +beautiful doorways. Close to the church is an old building called the +Sordet House. It, being very antique, is smothered with stucco, +according to the Swiss custom. Its main feature is a square tower, on +one angle of which --- almost buried in plaster --- is a fine Gothic +niche. The doorway in the base of the tower is of handsomely carved +stone, and bears the inscription, ``1521. A.S.'' The letters are the +initials of Aim\'{e} Sordet. The door opens upon a wide stone stair, the +walls of which are ornamented at intervals with elaborate and curious +pieces of carving, representing heads, coats of arms, reptiles and a +man playing the bagpipes. The arms of the Sordet family, it may be +noted, were a serpent with a gold crown. On the south wall of the +house, which looks into a quaint courtyard, is an escutcheon, with on +it a figure, helmet and lambrequin carved in stone. The house is now +divided into poor tenements. + +In the courtyard is a remarkable medi\ae val bench fashioned, or rather +dug out, from the trunk of a tree, for it is in one solid piece. Wood +can show its age in many ways. It may become black; it may become grey; +it may be friable, riddled with worm-holes and covered with +snuff-coloured dust. This bench is, how- ever, as hard as a stone, as +sunburnt as a summer fisherman and free from evidences of decay. Age +shows itself in the extraordinary degree in which it is wrinkled. No +shrivelled-up centenarian could show wrinkles so intricate nor furrows +so deep. + +The Sordets were great people in Cully in the 16th.\ century, and by +reason of holding the \emph{seigneurie} of Ropraz (near M\'{e}zi\`{e}res, +north-east of Lausanne) had the status of noblemen. Aim\'{e} Sordet was one +of the representatives, on the side of the Reformers, chosen to take +part in the famous Religious Conference held at Lausanne in October, +1536. + +There is another beautifully carved doorway in the town, bearing on the +lintel the inscription, ``1520. A. IESVS MARIA. S.,'' the first and +last letters being the initials of the same Aim\'{e} Sordet. Among other +notable stone entries in the town may be mentioned one with the date +1525 and the Sacred Heart in stone, another with the year 1598 over a +round arch very curiously ornamented, and a third of much dignity +marked by the date 1684. One humble doorway --- a simple square entry +of stone --- must not be overlooked. It is crowned by a little head, +the head of a nun with a pretty face and a most becoming coif. Her +story would be interesting to know, for she must have been, at one +time, the beauty of Cully. + +The interiors of certain of the ancient houses in the town have changed +but little during the last three or four hundred years. There are still +to be seen the worn stone stair, the great carved beams in the ceiling, +the 16th century windows and the doorway that would seem to pertain to +a convent cell rather than to a modern kitchen. + + \closing{Yours Faithfully,} + +\vfill +\cc{All Smiths in London\\ Mademoiselle S. Curchod} + +\encl{Tourist guide to Switzerland.\\ Plan of Cully.} + +\end{letter} + +\end{document} |