In a message dated 1/14/03 9:24:21 PM Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > Re: "Louis Guertin dit le sabotier" - that was his occupation. > Yes, the word saboteur became a nasty word when workers revolted and threw their wooden shoes (sabots) into machinery to damage it and shut down production. Before that time, it simply refered to the nice man who made the wooden shoes. "Sabot" is also a European form of Kick-Boxing. How's that for the "Bits & Pieces of Useless Information" catagory? Seeing I have a lot of Dutch ancestors....I probably had a lot of saboteurs in my ancestral lines too. Audrey Peters