A holiday’s history

Since the 1400s, Valentine’s Day has been celebrated on February 14, starting in Rome. The oldest known valentine was written in 1415 in France. Charles, the Duke of Orléans, penned it in the form of a poem to his wife. It’s believed that Americans started making and giving homemade valentine cards as early as the 1700s. The first store-bought cards were likely produced in the 1840s. Around the same time, a British chocolate company, Cadbury, started selling sweets in special boxes for Valentine’s Day. Customers were urged to keep the boxes after the holiday to store mementos, like love notes.…

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