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From: "Carole Brow" <>
Subject: RE: France locations
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 09:34:09 -0700


I have three websites that will include information and pictures of the
Acadian heritage areas of France when they are fully constructed. The URLs
are http://members.theglobe.com/traveler52/fr_trvl.html and
http://members.theglobe.com/traveler52/default.html and
http://members.theglobe.com/traveler52/loudun1.html?preview=936384773 .

I'm still working on fleshing the sites out. I have pictures that I took
when I visited these areas in April that I could email to anyone who would
like me to. I was in France to scope out the Acadian Heritage Tour© that
I'll be leading next June 22-July 4.

(FYI - The tour will start in Paris, tour some of the Loire Valley chateaux,
spend 3 days in the Loudun area, then visit La Ligne Acadienne, La Rochelle,
Nantes, and St. Malo. On the way back to Paris and the end of the tour,
we'll visit Mont-St-Michel and Monet's gardens and house at Giverny.

While in the Loudun area, the group will tour the Abbey of Fontevraud, one
of the largest monastic cities in Christendom, and the villages south of
Loudun from which the settlers of Acadie were recruited. We'll visit the
archaeological museum at St. Jean de Sauves with its Roman artifacts, the
Maison de l'Acadie museum in La Chaussée, Martaizé and Amberre, the chateau
of Bonnetière, and the vineyard area near Loudun. One night we will dine at
a chateau, the Chateau de Ternay and taste wines with the owner. There will
be an opportunity to visit the graves of the ancestors of participants where
such sites are known.

Having been in the Loudun area, it is hard to understand why that area of
France is so off the regular tourist trail. The area has everything: from
6000-year-old dolmen to Roman artifacts to medieval fortress farms and
villages to Renaissance chateaux. It is a beautiful and ancient place full
of sites of touristic interest.

If you want additional information, please contact me directly so I can
answer your questions and send you a brochure.)

And don't forget to contact me if you'd like me to email you any pictures I
might have that I took during my trip to France. This last trip I spent
time in Paris, the Loire Valley, the Acadian areas of Poitou, Bordeaux,
Arcachon, Saintes, La Rochelle, Nantes, St. Malo, Mont-St-Michel, Giverny,
Reims & Champagne (great wine tasting experience), Verdun, Alsace, Besançon,
Beaune, and Fontainbleu. I can't promise you great art, but it is nice to
see these places in photos when you can't be there in person.

Carole Brow
Travel Experience Consulting



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-----Original Message-----
From: Nancy Zuber/Del Smith [mailto:]
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 1999 9:40 PM
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Subject: France locations


Anyone,

Is there a way to see the various locations in France that the Acadians
came from? Is there a website?
Thanks
Nancy


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