first, my wife was mary louise roberts, and her mother moved from paris during the depression, and her sister jean married a frenchman and lived there for quite a while. i am just wondering if "roberts" is that common of a name or if we are somehow related. guest: well, i think roberts is my father's name, and my father was from mena, and he supposedly was the descendent of the drunk of the plymouth colonies, so he was on the mayflower, and he was kicked out of the plymouth colony, so that is my ancestry on my father's side. it is a welsh name, so i do not know. of youill say that a lot have talked about marriages between americans and french, and that was one of the very happy results of the g.i.'s being on the continent. the french women and the love.an g.i.'s fell in that love lasted, and when the war was over, the americans came back to get there brides. you wrote a book called "what soldiers do, sex and the american g.i. in france." why did you write that book, and what sort of reaction did it get? guest: well, i just got interested in the relationship between the american g.i.'s and the fren