Well, I can tell you that my mother's great-grandfather was a farmer in Brittany.
He went to Canada at the end of the last century, when Canada was still French.

And you love very much this place where you were born ?" "Very much.

Perhaps I shall soon be obliged to leave it." "Why ?" "When I get promotion, I shall have to exchange into another regiment, and I shall wander from garrison to garrison; but certainly, when I am an old commandant or old colonel, on half-pay, I shall come back, and live and die here, in the little house that was my father's." "Always quite alone ?" "Why quite alone?
I certainly hope not." "You intend to marry ?" "Yes, certainly." "You are trying to marry ?" "No; one may think of marrying, but one ought not to try to marry." "And yet there are people who do try.

Come, I can answer for that, and you even; people have wished to marry you." "How do you know that ?" "Oh! I know all your little affairs so well; you are what they call a good match, and I repeat it, they have wished to marry you." "Who told you that ?" "Monsieur le Cure." "Then he was very wrong," said Jean, with a certain sharpness.
"No, no, he was not wrong.

If any one has been to blame it is I.I soon discovered that your godfather was never so happy as when he was speaking of you.