An Aqueduct and a Discovery

I am sure many of you have seen, at least in pictures, the well preserved aqueduct Pont du Gard, built by the Romans in the first century.

Water ran along an elevated channel 50 kilometers from a spring to the north, to arid town of Nimes, further south.

After thoroughly enjoying our visit to the Aqueduct, we continued on to the village were the spring sprang forth.. Uzes, France in the province of Languedoc.

It is easy to see why this place was a favorite excursion on our river cruise. For starters, they had a castle with a real Duke...and the flag flew when he was in town. Note the flag,

 and not only was the weather perfect ,but the village was bustling with happy well heeled people.

I could have just stayed there, and people watched all day long.

I then and there decided it was a place I definitely wanted to come back to.

When we returned to the ship I posted a few pictures, and told about my day. What a shock!
You see, on my mother's side, my ggg-grandmother was French. I knew this from doing genealogy. I wasn't aware that my Mother's first cousin Milton had traced our family all the way back to France. Not just France, but to this VERY VILLAGE! Louis Chapalier was a Protestant minister in Uzes, France. He and his wife Simone were killed in a purge of Protestants in the seventeenth century. Their son Isaac escaped to England, and became a doctor in the Royal Navy. Isaac's son, Isaac jr. immigrated to the U.S., and the rest is history. Can you believe it?! I now have the line of succession right down to ME from Uzes, France!

Thank you again Milton for filling me in on this cherished information.