Show bestow garlands on virtuous poor girls parts paris the best girls of france are being crowned with wreaths of rosebuds and awarded money prizes usually this presentation Is the big event of a sunday ceremony organized for the distribution of various local prizes some are tor for long service others for special achievement of many kinds the prize for virtue dates back to the year st medard bishop of noyon boyon Is by tradition given credit for initiating a public rand fund out of his own property to supply the prize money the custom spread through the coo cea turie and it Is observed still mostly in northern france generally the prize Is awarded to a poor girl who supports a family |