But she’d been heavily influenced by her own ancestry; by the town she’d been born in where a statue of her many times great-grandfather had been erected. The grandfather who had been born and raised in France but later lived and fought the British in Acadia. After losing, he was summarily exiled to what was now known as Louisiana. The same grandfather then decided to join the slave-owning community of the South, which led unsurprisingly to the creation of colored Valcourts who passed down sprinkled French like salt onto every generation that followed.
