In 2018, we booked a last-minute long weekend vacation to France and picked La Rochelle and neighboring island, Ile de Ré, as our destination. Jeffrey and I both are descended from French Huguenots (protestants who fled Catholic France in the 16th & 17th centuries) – and both of us had family members who landed in Charleston many generations ago (where...
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