This site is dedicated to all Pinels, wherever you are, you will find that your family name is taken from either the estate your ancestors owned or simply from the place around where they were born.

They could have been masters or slaves, lords or ploughmen, warriors or priests, gangsters or benefactors, travellers or sedentary people, scientists or illiterates, famous or unknown...

All of them represent, with their diversity, a synthesis of a millenium of western culture and history.

Nicolas Pinel
Paris, May 2002.