For Claire Dinhut, life at her family's 1,000-year-old water mill is full of beauty, hard work and a deep connection to history — even when the river floods Ashley Vega is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE.

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Claire Dinhut’s family home is a 9th-century water mill, originally built for monks to mill flour and surrounded by flowing rivers The historic mill has survived centuries of floods and was recently ...