“Meet me in Tours,” Joan had said. I checked the map to find Tours. It’s in the opposite direction from Reims, which I had assumed would be our next stop. I headed south from Orléans to Tours. I noticed on the map that it was not all that far from Chinon. I began to feel we were going around in a circle.
Still, Tours today is a great place to visit. It’s even known as the Garden of France.” The people of Tours are credited with speaking the purest form of the French language in all of France. There are chateaux and castles in every direction. It was once the capital of France, but long before that it was home to the Gauls and later the Romans. It gets its name from the Gallic tribe of Turones. It was in Tours in 732 AD that Charles Martel stopped the tide of northward conquests by defeati
