Port San Gustain is a port in Brittany with an illustrious past. The current day village is a charming one on one of the estuaries in the Bay in Brittany near the town of Auray.
Two people we can historically connect to this port are
Samuel de Champlain was well respected French exploration who explored much of eastern Canada (then known as New France), made friends with many Indian tribes and wrote about their life. If you travel in Quebec or Vermont, you would come across places that are associated with him.
No authentic portrait of him exists.
Which student of north American history does not know Benjamin Franklin? His face adorns a denomination of usa currency and there are so many places and institutions named after him in the USA. For our purpose he was the first USA, newly nascent in 1776, ambassador anywhere having arrived at this port just a few months after the American independence in 1776.
(a friend of mine from the USA wrote to me jokingly , if you meet Franklin, ask him what he thinks of what is happening to the USA!)
I had a pleasant afternoon in this small village in Brittany, absolutely gorgeous weather for this early summer day.
