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* ‘19. Left. “La Fontaine de Fortune” painted in 1457[ce] by René d’Anjou.** The inscription says the sorcerer Virgil brought the spring forth. René’s contemporaries would have associated Virgil with Arcadia. This is the first surfacing of Arcadia’s underground stream, Alpheus, in modern Western culture.’***

**Count of Provence & Piedmont <911030>

*** --from ‘The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail’, Baigent, Leigh, & Lincoln, between pp264 & 265 (he admitted with a certain amount of embarrassment).

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