Philip de la Vache ""The Canterbury Tales"". However, the reference to Vache in Chaucer's poem may on good grounds also be a pun on his own name. The phrase Vache, leve! in the first line of the Envoy corresponds to medieval French Vache, reïs!, 'cow, leave!'. The French phase reïs, Vache!, (REISVACHE), when reversed, becomes CHAVSIER, the French form of the poet's name (this is a so-called palindrome). In the First Book of Kings in the Old Testament, the cows on their way to Beth Shemesh are likened to holy men, or monks on their way to the Heavenly Jerusalem. Chaucer may have regarded
Allan Vache Allan Vache Allan Vaché (born December 16, 1953 in Rahway, New Jersey) is an American jazz clarinetist and brother of jazz cornetist Warren Vache. Vaché played with the Jim Cullum Jazz Band of San Antonio, Texas, for seventeen years and was a regular on the "Riverwalk – Live from the Landing" radio show on Public Radio International, which featured the Cullum band. He performed with Cullum on "A Prairie Home Companion" with Garrison Keillor. He is a featured performer on Gershwin's "Porgy & Bess" with the Cullum band, released on CBS Masterworks. He toured Mexico for the U.S. State Department