This famous column was written by Art Buchwald in 1952 while he was working in France for the International Herald Tribune. It was regularly republished each year thereafter. The text I have found on line on a Washington Post page was retitled Le Grande Thanksgiving and dated 2005.
I have retrieved in my archives a 1974 version from the Denver Post (while I was French Assistant at Loretto Heights College). It is slightly different from the text below at the start and at the end: the last sentence does not exist and that makes -in my opinion- a much sharper ending.
The title was Le Jour de Merci Donnant.
Le Grande Thanksgiving
By Art Buchwald,
Thursday, November 24, 2005
This confidential column was leaked to me by a high government
official in the Plymouth colony on the condition that I not reveal his
name.
One of our most important holidays is Thanksgiving Day, known in France as le Jour de Merci Donnant .
