Tag: Jacques Pinard
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What’s in a Name?
My birth name is Peter James Pienaar. A perfectly respectable name, I think. But if I had arrived a few centuries earlier, somewhere around 1555, and if history had been a little kinder with titles, trumpets, and velvet cloaks, I might have been introduced as Lord Peter James. There are records linking the old Pinard…
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Saint Pinard
Saint Pinard I recall some years ago a conversation I had with a French family, concerning my origins. At the time it raised much mirth among them resulting in the only member of the family, who could speak English, confiding in me. “Peter” he said, “This name, Pinard is a beet of a…
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Saint Pinard
Saint Pinard I recall some years ago a conversation I had with a French family, concerning my origins. At the time it raised much mirth among them resulting in the only member of the family, who could speak English, confiding in me. “Peter” he said, “This name, Pinard is a beet of a…