Reluctantly, Jack paused in the eating of lobster. "Marguerite Lafitte? What year are we talking about?"
"Issues with the uncertainty of Nicolas Denys' land grants in Arcadia were ongoing for much of his life. But he probably built the house in Nepisiguit in the mid-17th century. His book was published in 1672, and it is likely that he was at Nepisiguit during at least part of the writing of this book." St. Denis had finished the grilled bass and was concentrating on unsalted butter and white wine sauteed scallops, which he had ordered as a side dish.
"Marguerite Lafitte?" Jack repeated the question.
"The Denys/St. Denis genealogy is unclear. There were other possible members of my family in Canada at that time, not to mention those who stayed home at Tours or elsewhere in the Valley of the Loire, where I like to think they were artists or made champagne. Given the various claims of my ancestry, I was not very interested in genealogies until..." St Denis paused to grate white pepper on the scallops.
