Romance of Astrea and Celadon (Les amours d'Astrée et de Céladon) English Subtitles

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The Romance of Astrea and Celadon

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ln 1610, Honore d'Urfe wrote

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of a band of shepherds
living in 5th-century Gaul,

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far from Roman civilization.B82

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We portray these Gauls as
17th-century readers imagined them.

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Sadly, we have had to move
their story from the Forez plain,

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now disfigured by urban blight
and conifer plantations,

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to another part of France
whose scenery has retained

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its wild poetry and bucolic charm.