Les tours du Vieux-Port de La Rochelle. Par Jebulon — Travail personnel, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=46279660
If I were to cite a personal example of how the Fichier Origine—which I praised more than once throughout this Challenge—may prove helpful for identifying new ancestors, Barbe Ménard would be the one. Barbe is my 8th great-grandmother on the maternal side of my great-grandmother Esther Laurendeau, wife of Louis Tourville.