Show The Parrot Amiens Possibly t for r English readers th the th fame tame of the Jackdaw of Reims baa has eclipsed the fame of the Parrot of ot Amiens But Vert-Vert Vert was a bird who made history In a small way He II was a monastery parrot renowned for piety until he was sent on a visit by canal boat to a nunnery and acquired acquire a new new vocabulary on the way way wilt will terrible results as can be Imagined The author of his adventures Jean Baptiste Gresset a native of Amiens had bad to leave a clerical school in consequence con con- sequence of the scandal caused by the poem of which Vert-Vert Vert was tho the avian avion hero hero London London Chronicle |