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2 unusual facts about Brittany


Sept Îles

Sept Îles, also known as Jentilez, a small French archipelago off the north coast of Brittany and an important birds reserve

William Inglis

The same year, Inglis and his men were also briefly detached to a failed expedition to Brittany, but by the time the campaign had faltered in the winter of 1794, Ingis was back in Belgium.


2006 GP Ouest-France

The 2006 GP Ouest-France, the 69th edition of the GP Ouest-France, took place on August 27, 2006 in the French region of Brittany, in a race in and around the village of Plouay.

Al Baker

He appeared on the ABC-TV show Shark Tank on December 6, 2013 in which investor and entrepreneur Daymond John agreed to invest, for a 30 percent share, in Queen Ann Inc., the food company started by Baker and Baker's children, Brittany Bo Baker and James Albert London Baker.

Aubrey de Vere II

In addition to his patronage of Colne Priory, the new master chamberlain also founded a cell of the abbey St. Melanie in Rennes, Brittany, at Hatfield Broadoak or Hatfield Regis, Essex.

Austol

Saint Austol (or Austolus) was a 6th-century Cornish holy man who lived for much of his life in Brittany.

Battle of Blavet

The Battle of Blavet (French: Bataille du Blavet) was an encounter between the Huguenot forces of Soubise and a French fleet under the Duke of Nevers in Blavet harbour (Port de Blavet, modern Port-Louis), Brittany in January 1625, triggering the Second Huguenot rebellion against the Crown of France.

Brest Tramway

The Brest tramway located in Brest (Brittany), France consists of a 28 stop, 14.3 km line connecting Porte de Plouzané in the west with Porte de Gouesnou and Porte de Guipavas northeast of the city centre.

Cephalopod attack

In 2003, the crew of a yacht competing to win the round-the-world Jules Verne Trophy reported being attacked by a giant squid several hours after departing from Brittany, France.

Château de Comper

The Château de Comper is a castle located in Paimpont forest (former known as Brocéliande), three kilometers to the east of the village of Concoret in the département of Morbihan in the region of Brittany, France.

Chronicles of Mystery: The Tree of Life

In Brittany she finds a chest that was a key part in "Mary Celeste" mystery.

Clan Stewart

The Stewarts who became monarchs of Scotland were descended from a family who were seneschals of Dol in Brittany, France.

Collen

As there are no other churches in Wales dedicated to St. Collen, it is possible that this St. Collen may also have connections in both Colan, Cornwall, where Colan Church is dedicated to him, and Langolen, Brittany.

Comet line

The third route from Paris (the Shelburne line) ran to Rennes and then St Brieuc in Brittany, where men were shipped to Dartmouth.

Conan II, Duke of Brittany

In the history of conflicts between Brittany and Anjou, Pouancé had served as the "Breton March" or border town.

Continental Celtic languages

The Continental Celtic languages are the Celtic languages, now extinct, that were spoken on the continent of Europe, as distinguished from the Insular Celtic languages of the British Isles and Brittany.

Cornelius Ó Caoimh

He was listed as an Irish exile in Brittany in 1710, when he was nominated for the rectorship of St. Similien's parish, Nantes.

Cotentin Peninsula

While they were eventually expelled by Alan's grandson, Alan II, Duke of Brittany, the subsequent rulers of Brittany were weaker than Alan the Great.

Dan Ar Braz

Dan Ar Braz, born Daniel Le Bras (15 January 1949, Quimper, Brittany), is a Breton guitarist and the founder of Héritage des Celtes.

Daughters of Jesus

That same year, on 1 July, the Daughters of Jesus of Brittany merged with an older congregation of the same name founded in 1820 in Vaylats in southern France.

Devonport High School for Boys

The school had a residential centre in the French town of Uzel in Brittany.

Fernand Dauchot

Still, the crippled artist went to Brittany in 1923 and started to paint with other artists in Pont-Aven.

Frits Thaulow

His best paintings were made in small towns such as Montreuil-sur-Mer (1892–94), Dieppe and surrounding villages from (1894–98), Quimperle in Brittany in (1901) and Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne in the Corrèze département (1903).

Gei Zantzinger

He directed and produced films about the musics of Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Cape Verde, Lesotho, South Africa, and Brittany.

George Robert Ainslie

He made a specialty of Anglo-Norman coins, and travelled all over England, and, what was then a more uncommon thing, all over the rural districts of Normandy and Brittany, in search of coins.

Henri Dupuy de Lôme

He was the son of a naval officer and was born in Ploemeur near Lorient, Brittany, in western France.

Henri Honoré d'Estienne d'Orves

On 21 December 1940, he set sail from Newlyn to Plogoff in Brittany on a fishing boat, the Marie-Louise, along with his 20-year-old radio operator Alfred Gaessler, a German-speaking Alsatian, codenamed Georges Marty.

James Audley

In 1360 he took the fortress of Chaven in Brittany, as well as the castle of Ferte-sous-Jouarre, and was present at Calais when peace was made between England and France in October 1360.

Jean de Montfort

John V, Duke of Brittany (1339 - 1399), son of the former, Duke of Brittany from 1364 to 1399, count of Richemont and count of Montfort (1345-1399).

Jef Le Penven

Le Penven's music expresses his attachment to Brittany and Celtic culture.

Jessica Wakefield

She was played by Brittany Daniel in the TV series of the same name. Her twin sister, Elizabeth was portrayed by Brittany's twin, Cynthia Daniel.

John Norreys

Some of his troops transferred to the Earl of Essex's force in Normandy, and Norreys' campaign proved so indecisive that he left for England in February 1592 and did not return to Brittany until September 1593, when he seized the great fortress of Crozon outside Brest, defended by 200 Spanish troops.

Kingdoms of Elfin

The stories range across various traditional lands of Europe and beyond, including Brocéliande in Brittany, Elfhame in Scotland, Mynydd Prescelly in Wales, the Forest of Arden and Bury St. Edmunds in England, and as far away as the Peris of Persia.

Kofi Yamgnane

He became well known in France in 1989 after being elected mayor of a village of Brittany, Saint-Coulitz (less than 400 inhabitants), and at this time, one out of only two black mayors in Metropolitan France (and the only black man in his city), the other was Auguste Senghor, mayor of Le May-sur-Èvre, a town (3,891 inhabitants) in the Maine-et-Loire département, from 1989 to 2008, when he became mayor of another town, Saint-Briac (Ille-et-Vilaine).

La Chapelle-Launay

The Second Breton War of Succession pitted the supporters of two different claimants against one another: those of the half-brother of the deceased John III, Duke of Brittany, Jean de Montfort, who relied on the Estates of Brittany who gathered in Nantes, and those of Charles I, Duke of Brittany, who was supported by King Philippe VI of France and was recognized as Duke of Brittany by the peers of the kingdom.

Louis, Duke of Brittany

Louis XII of France (1462-1515), who by marriage to Anne, Duchess of Brittany, was Duke of Brittany

Maurice Colbourne

He is probably best remembered as Tom Howard, in the BBC Television serial, Howards' Way, which he played from 1985–89, until he died suddenly aged 49 from a heart attack while renovating a holiday home in Dinan, Brittany, France.

Operation Dingson

On 5 August 1944, 10 Waco CG-4 gliders towed by aircraft of 298 Squadron and 644 Squadron transported the French SAS men and armed jeeps to Brittany near Vannes (Locoal-Mendon), each glider carrying 3 SAS troopers and a jeep which carried two Vickers K machine guns plus explosives, sten guns and a Piat antitank gun.The gliders were escorted by 32 Spitfires for part of the trip.

Oratory of the Paraclete

In 1125 he was elected by the monks of the Abbey at Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys, near Vannes, Brittany, to be their abbot, so he turned the Paraclete over to Heloise, his wife, who had been in a convent in Argenteuil since taking the veil.

Pascweten

He owned vast landed estates and salt works (as at Guérande) in southeastern Brittany and was a patron of Redon Abbey.

Pierrick Lilliu

Pierrick Lilliu, born 13 July 1986, is a French rock-singer living in Brittany and was born in Mulhouse, Alsace from a Sardinian father.

Plogoff

In the early 1970s, the French state power company, EDF decided to establish a production's nuclear power plant in Brittany.

Raymond Wintz

Brittany was the location for The Blue Door and for most of his landscapes which carry the name of the location and include Camaret and Morning Light at Dalan (Finisterre).

Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester

However in 1121, royal favour brought Robert the great Norman honors of Breteuil and Pacy-sur-Eure, with his marriage to Amice de Gael, daughter of a Breton intruder the king had forced on the honor after the forfeiture of the Breteuil family in 1119.

Saint Peter's Singers of Leeds

Brittany was the venue for the choir's tour in May 2011 - with visits to Vannes, Quimper and Josselin.

Saint Sithney

He was also venerated at Guissény, Brittany, and at a number of other places in Brittany.

Saint Teilo

In 549 Teilo, with a small group of monks, moved to Dol in Brittany.

The Five Crosses

The Five Crosses (or commonly known as Les Cinq Croix) is a Christian monument of Calvary at Ploubezere, near Lannion, Côtes-du-Nord, in Brittany, France.

Thomas Hovenden

He studied at the École des Beaux Arts under Cabanel, but spent most of his time with the American art colony at Pont-Aven in Brittany led by Robert Wylie, where he painted many pictures of the peasantry.

William the Breton

William the Breton was, as his name indicates born in Brittany, probably in the town of Saint-Pol-de-Léon.

Y.O Concept

Y.O Concept is a French racecar constructor based in Cornillé, Brittany.


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