The other day I went on my daily constitutional forced march. As I was advancing, I stumbled upon this car sporting this interesting and eye opening vanity plate.
This car belongs to the Pelletier family who can trace their genealogy in Quebec back to 1641.
I find this refreshing. I find this amazing.
Can you imagine, folks🤗, this family’s roots went into Quebec’s soil back when Cardinal Richelieu governed France in the name of King Louis XIII, the same monarch depicted by Alexandre Dumas in the Three Musketeers?
Say what you will about the minuscule and somewhat insufficient gene pool of La Belle Province. One thing’s for sure though.
There are some resilient bloodlines among the French peasantry and landed gentry that crossed the Atlantic back in the 1640s.
These folks found a savage, undeveloped land, and worked it, developed it, built it up into a better place than what they found.
Their roots oxygenated the soil, their ancestors provided the fertilizer, and their descendants the labour that allowed their offspring to one day write these magnificent words on their Toyota’s vanity plate.
Happy 350th anniversary, Guillaume Pelletier!
May your family endure another 350 years!
Götterdämmerung 