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Bigouden
Bigouden (Breton: ''Bro-Vigoudenn''; French: ''Pays Bigouden''), historically known as Cap Caval, is, along the Bay of Audierne, the most south-western area of ''Bro Kernev'' in Brittany, south-west of Quimper, defined since 1790 in the French department of Finistère. The designation was an informal label taken from the name of the distinctive headdress traditionally worn by the local women. ''Gallica''''Brittany & Its Byways p. 258''/ref> By the end of the 19th century, the name then slipped to designate the women of the area, then to describe all its inhabitants. It has since been formalised within the administration and promotion of the region. Geography This traditional area constitutes since French revolution a grouping of three cantons: Guilvinec, Pont-l'Abbé and Plogastel-Saint-Germain Plogastel-Saint-Germain (; ) is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in north-western France. Population Inhabitants of Plogastel-Saint-Germain are called in French ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pont-l'Abbé
Pont-l'Abbé (; , "Abbot's bridge") is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in north-western France. The self-styled capital of Pays Bigouden (roughly the region between the river Odet and the Bay of Audierne), Pont-l'Abbé was founded in the 14th century by a monk of Loctudy who built the first bridge across the river estuary, hence the name. The same monk also built the first castle. Geography Climate Pont-l'Abbé has a oceanic climate (Köppen climate classification ''Cfb''). The average annual temperature in Pont-l'Abbé is . The average annual rainfall is with November as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around , and lowest in January, at around . The highest temperature ever recorded in Pont-l'Abbé was on 16 July 2006; the coldest temperature ever recorded was on 2 January 1997. Population Inhabitants of Pont-l'Abbé are called in French ''Pont-l'Abbistes''. Breton language The municipality launched a ling ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plonéour-Lanvern
Plonéour-Lanvern (; br, Ploneour-Lanwern) is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in north-western France. Toponymy and originate The name Plonéour means in Breton Saint Enéour's plou (parish), to which was added the name of Lanvern (which comes from the Breton lan (hermitage) and of the name Wern or Guern which means swamp of alders) when this former(old) parish was connected with the municipality recently created by Plonéour in 1793. The legend says that the menhir which raises itself(draws up itself) on the central place(square) of Plonéour-Lanvern would be the mast of the boat which would have brought saint Enéour of Great Britain in Cornouaille. The Breton name of the municipality is Ploneour-Lanwern. Geography The River of Pont-l'abbé and the stretch of water of the New Mill The River of Pont-l'abbot rises near Kerfioret, in the municipal limit between Landudec and Plogastel-Saint-Germain, in passer-by in the West-southwest of the village of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plomeur
Plomeur (; ) is a commune in the Bigouden region of Finistère department of Brittany in north-western France. Plomeur is situated between the larger communes of Penmarc'h to the South-West, Guilvinec and Treffiagat to the South, as well as Pont-l'Abbé to the East. The beaches on the Baie d'Audierne are shared with the community of Tréguennec to the north and Pors-Carn (part of the commune of Penmarc'h) to the south. The beach is divided by the Pointe de la Torche, a promontory and rocky granite outcropping as well as a prehistoric settlement and burial site registered as a historic monument. Population Inhabitants of Plomeur are called in French ''Plomeurois''. Breton language The municipality launched a linguistic plan concerning the Breton language Breton (, ; or in Morbihan) is a Southwestern Brittonic language of the Celtic language family spoken in Brittany, part of modern-day France. It is the only Celtic language still widely in use on the European ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pêr-Jakez Helias
Pêr-Jakez Helias, baptised Pierre-Jacques Hélias, ''nom de plume'' Pierre-Jakez Hélias (1914–1995) was a Breton stage actor, journalist, author, poet, and writer for radio who worked in the French and Breton languages. For many years he directed a weekly radio programme in the Breton language and co-founded a summer festival at Quimper which became the Festival de Cornouaille. Life and work Helias was born in 1914 in Pouldreuzig, Penn-ar-Bed, Brittany. His father, Pierre-Alain Hélias, was a native of the nearby village of Plozévet. Helias' mother, Marie-Jeanne Le Goff, had grown up in Pouldreuzic, to which her husband moved after their wedding in 1913. Hélias' paternal grandfather, Yann Helias, was a tenant farmer, sabot-maker, and storyteller known in Plozévet as ''Yann ar Burzudou'' ("Yann the Wonder-Man"). Pierre-Alain Hélias had previously served at Vannes in an artillery unit of the French Army and, upon the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, he was recal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penmarc'h
Penmarch (, ) is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany, northwestern France.Commune de Penmarch (29158) INSEE It lies 18 km south-west of by road. Geography Penmarch is the southwest-most township of Pays Bigouden, at the southern end of the Bay of Audierne. It is part of the , and of the |
Brittany
Brittany (; french: link=no, Bretagne ; br, Breizh, or ; Gallo: ''Bertaèyn'' ) is a peninsula, historical country and cultural area in the west of modern France, covering the western part of what was known as Armorica during the period of Roman occupation. It became an independent kingdom and then a duchy before being united with the Kingdom of France in 1532 as a province governed as a separate nation under the crown. Brittany has also been referred to as Little Britain (as opposed to Great Britain, with which it shares an etymology). It is bordered by the English Channel to the north, Normandy to the northeast, eastern Pays de la Loire to the southeast, the Bay of Biscay to the south, and the Celtic Sea and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. Its land area is 34,023 km2 . Brittany is the site of some of the world's oldest standing architecture, home to the Barnenez, the Tumulus Saint-Michel and others, which date to the early 5th millennium BC. Today, the h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Quillivic
René Quillivic (1879–1969) was a French sculptor whose art expressed Breton cultural identity. His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1928 Summer Olympics. Life René Quillivic was born on 13 May 1879 in the town of Plouhinec, Finistère, in a small house bordering one side of what is currently known as the "Place Jean Cosquer". He came from a family of fishermen, but was apprenticed to a carpenter. He decided to pursue an artistic career as a sculptor and was accepted by the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he joined the workshop of Antonin Mercier. He exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon des Artistes Français. In 1907, he won the Gold Medal at the Salon des Beaux-Arts for ' (Group of Breton Pipers). The following year, another of his works, ''La Brodeuse de Pont-l'Abbé'' (Pont-l'Abbé Embroiderer), gave him access to funds for travels to North Africa and Italy. He pursued his career creating pub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tréogat
Tréogat () is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in north-western France. Population Inhabitants of Tréogat are called ''Tréogatais'' in French. See also * Communes of the Finistère department The following is a list of the 277 communes of the Finistère department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2022):Mayors of Finistère Association Communes of Finistère {{Finistère-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plovan
Plovan (; ) is a commune in the Finistère department Department may refer to: * Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility Government and military *Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ... of Brittany in north-western France. Population Inhabitants of Plovan are called in French ''Plovanais''. See also * Communes of the Finistère department References External links *Mayors of Finistère Association Communes of Finistère {{Finistère-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peumerit
Peumerit (; ) formerly Peumérit,Since 1 August 2012, is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in north-western France. Population Inhabitants of Peumerit are called in French ''Peumeritois''. History Modern period This municipally is known for facts related to the revolt of "bonnets rouges" traduce, the red caps, in 1675. In 1759, an order from Louis XV order to the parish of Peumerit to provide 20 men and to pay 131 livres for "the annual expense of the coastguard of Britain". French Revolution The parish of Peumerit, which included 140 fires, elects two delegates, Alain Le Brun and Pierre Canevet, for represent it to the third-state assembly of the seneschal of Quimper, in the spring of 1789. The 20th Century A political and religious life agitated The expulsion of the clergy of the Peumerit Parish trains on the 11 March 1909 the decision of M.Duparc to ban all the religious ringtones, even for ''the Angélus'' and funerals, a priest installed in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Landudec
Landudec (; ) is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in north-western France. Population Inhabitants of Landudec are called in French ''Landudecois''. See also *Communes of the Finistère department The following is a list of the 277 communes of the Finistère department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2022):Official website * Mayors of Finistère Association Communes of Finistère {{Finistère-g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tréméoc
Tréméoc (; br, Tremeog) is a commune in the Finistère department Department may refer to: * Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility Government and military *Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ... of Brittany in north-western France. Population Inhabitants of Tréméoc are called in French ''Tréméocois''. See also * Communes of the Finistère department References External links Official website*Mayors of Finistère Association Communes of Finistère {{Finistère-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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