Talk:Capture of Belle Île

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Nursery rhyme / song

There was kind of a nursery rhyme or poem, also turned into a song, that ran: "At the siege of Belle Isle / I was there all the while / All the while / All the while / At the siege of Belle Isle". Apparently some 19th-century parents used this to fob off requests from children at bedtime to "Tell me another story!"... -- AnonMoos (talk) 13:14, 7 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I came here again to leave a comment on this, forgetting that I had already done it seven years ago. See this external link: [1] -- AnonMoos (talk) 07:17, 21 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]