Thanks Peter - I was hoping you would clarify!
Some years ago a forum member made a comment that everyone should start at Le Puy because "that was the most historical route on record".
If you read about the so called Le Puy route on Peter's website (and this website,
http://www.saint-jacques.info/anglais/lepuy.htm) you will learn that the idea of thousands of pilgrims following Bishop Godesalc on the route to Santiago is just another Camino urban legend.
Just as the Codex Calixtinus was lost in the archives of the Santiago Cathderal for hundreds of years, so was the evidence of Godesalc's pilgrimagte to Santiago lost for over a thousand years.
In 1866 Léopold Delisle, conservator at the National Library in Paris, rediscovered, in an authentic manuscript of the Xth century the mention of the voyage to Compostela of the bishop of Le Puy, Godescalc, in 951.
The Saint-Jacques,info website stresses the fact that, " ... this pilgrimage of Godescalc had been forgotten about for a thousand years and was only exhumed from the archives in the XIXth century, and what's more was only known to a small circle of local specialists in Le Puy. This mention stated nothing more than what the monk Gomez had written, in particular, nothing on the route that the bishop had taken in the winter of 951, nothing further on his « numerous retinue »... and that, "Until the middle of the XXth century, Le Puy took no notice of Compostela"
There is a saying, 'the path is made by walking' so perhaps our generation are laying down what in future will be described as the 'authentic paths' to Santiago de Compostela.