Himalayan Salt and Valentine

Sitting down to write to you, I've just realized it's Valentines Day.
So I hope you're spending it with someone you love :)

Je suis desja d'amour tanné
Ma tres doulce Valentiné.

(Charles d'Orléans, Rondeau VI, lines 1-2)

Those words are the beginning of the earliest surviving valentine, which
is a fifteenth-century rondeau written by Charles, Duke of Orleans to his
"valentined" wife.

At the time, the duke was being held in the Tower of London following
his capture at the Battle of Agincourt, 1415.

So if you want to be romantic, and surely you do, pen those beautiful
words onto a nice card and hand it over with a dozen red roses :)

And if you want to know what it means in English here's the translation
by my brilliant, Harvard educated, neighbor, Dr Susan Yates a specialist
in historical French literature.

"I'm driven mad by love
my sweet valentine"

At least I think it was a translation. She might just have been
whispering sweet nothings to me :)