France, Bas Rhin, Strasbourg, Selestat, the Biblioth?que Humaniste (Humanist Library) refurbished by the architect Rudy Ricciotti, 1521, the oldest written mention of the Christmas tree extracted from the register of accounts of the city of S?lestat from 1517 to 1522, there is question of an expenditure of four Schillings to pay the forest guards responsible for watching over the trees in the municipal forests on Saint Thomas' Day and a fine imposed on anyone who cuts the said fir trees

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