'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house

Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; ...

A Visit from St. Nicholas - illustrated by Thomas Nast

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The poem, which has been called "arguably the best-known verses ever written by an American", is largely responsible for some of the conceptions of Santa Claus from the mid-nineteenth century to today. Prior to the poem, American ideas about St. Nicholas and other Christmastide visitors varied considerably.
On Christmas Eve night, while his wife and children sleep, a man awakens to noises outside his house. Looking out the window, he sees St. Nicholas in an air-borne sleigh pulled by eight reindeer. After landing his sleigh on the roof, the saint enters the house through the chimney, carrying a sack of toys with him. The man watches Nicholas filling the children's Christmas stockings hanging by the fire, and laughs to himself. They share a conspiratorial moment before the saint bounds up the chimney again. As he flies away, Saint Nicholas wishes everyone a "Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night."
Clement Clarke Moore ( 1779 - 1863) was an American Professor of Oriental and Greek Literature, as well as Divinity and Biblical Learning, at the General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Located on land donated by the "Bard of Chelsea" himself, the seminary still stands today on Ninth Avenue between 20th and 21st Streets, in an area known as Chelsea Square. Moore's connection with that institution continued for over twenty-five years. He is the author of the yuletide poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas", which later became famous as "'Twas the Night Before Christmas".

Twas the Night before Christmas (Original illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith)

"The Night before Christmas" - the famous Christmas-Poem by Clement Clarke Moore

The Night before Christmas - (illustrated)

Un grand-père raconte à ses petits-enfants comment, un soir de Noël, alors que tout dormait dans la maison, il a été réveillé par un claquement de sabots. Et comment il a surpris le père Noël en personne, en train de faire sa distribution de cadeaux... Les illustrations traditionnelles et chaleureuses de Ted Rand, autant que le récit, évoquent à merveille la magie d'un Noël d'antan.

La nuit magique de Noël

Un grand-père raconte à ses petits-enfants comment, un soir de Noël, il a surpris le père Noël en personne, en train de faire sa distribution de cadeaux... Un livre à caresser Nord-Sud.

'Twas the night before Christmas, when all thro' the house ...

The Night Before Christmas - A Visit of St. Nicholas

Par une belle nuit étoilée, filant sur son traîneau tiré par huit petites rennes, le Père Noël vient distribuer ses cadeaux. Quelle nuit merveilleuse !

La belle nuit de Noël

La Nuit de Noël, célèbre poème de Clement Clarke Moore, a été publié pour la première fois en 1821 et est considéré comme étant à l'orgine du mythe du Père Noël. Illustré de dessins tendres, cet album musical et lumineux fera la joie des enfants.

La Nuit de Noël - Un livre enrichi de lumières et d'une musique de Noël

In der Christnacht macht sich der Weihnachtsmann in seinem mit acht Rentieren bespannten Schlitten auf, um die Geschenke zu verteilen ...

Diese Weihnachtsgeschichte wurde mit zahlreichen schönen Bildern illustriert.

A Visit from St. Nicholas - illustrated by Thomas Nast

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