Joyful Parisians take a historic plunge into the Seine after 100 years
Day: July 5, 2025
According to Google’s Books Ngram Viewer, the phrase was coined some time around 1800 and peaked around 1930: The oldest reference I could find for “olden days” is the 1805 Tobias: a poem : in three parts by Rev. Luke Booker: And the oldest I found for “olden times” is Poems on Affairs of State from 1620 to this Present Year 1707, in a poem called “GIGANTOMAXIA, or a full and true Relation of …