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Describe when, how, and by whom the first Valentine greeting was sent.

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The day was designated as the Feast of Saint Valentine by Pope Gelasius in 496 AD. ... But, the British Library in London holds the oldest known surviving valentine, a poem composed in French in 1415 by Charles Duke of Orleans to his wife, which he sent while imprisoned in the Tower of London.
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