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5 unusual facts about Finistère


Berrien

Berrien, Finistère, a commune of the Finistère département in France

Bodil Malmsten

In the novel, having decided to pack up and leave her country of birth, she recounts the story her settling into her new home in the Finistère département, in the northwest of France.

Cottage loaf

A cottage loaf is characterised by its shape, which is essentially that of two round loaves, one on top of the other, with the upper one being rather smaller: the shape is similar to that of the French brioche and the pain chapeau of Finistère.

Finistère

The name Finistère derives from the Latin Finis Terræ, meaning end of the earth. In England and Cornwall, such an area is called Land's End.

Louis de Goesbriand

Goesbriand was born in Saint-Urbain, Finistère, and studied at the Seminary of Saint-Sulpice in Paris.


Battle of St Pol de Léon

On 9 June, Dagworth was in the Finistère region, moving north from the town of Morlaix, scene of his earlier victory in the battle of Morlaix.

Broadclyst

Broadclyst has been twinned since 2006 with the French village of Plobannalec-Lesconil, in southern Finistère in Brittany.

Bugaled Breizh

The MFV Bugaled Breizh is a French trawler from Loctudy, Finistère, whose sinking with all hands on January 15, 2004 remains unresolved.

Charles Madic

Born August 8, 1942 in Coray in Finistère, France, to Henri Madic, customs officer, and Isabelle Madic born le Clech, housewife.

Château de Kérouzéré

The Château de Kérouzéré is a 15th-century Breton castle (or manor-house) in the commune of Sibiril in the Finistère département of France.

Edith Ker

Édith Ker, born Édith Denise Keraudren (1910–1997) was a French actress born in Brest (Finistère).

Guy Cotten

Born in Saint-Yvi, Finistère, Guy Cotten was the first son of a farming family of seven children.

Le Puy Mine

At the close of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century the Le Puy Mine was together with Poullaouen and Huelgoat in Finistère, Vialas in Lozère, Pontgibaud in Puy-de-Dôme and Pontpéan in Ille-et-Vilaine one of the most important lead mines in France.

Paul Aurelian

He went to Brittany, establishing monasteries in Finistère at Ouessant on the north-west coast of Brittany, at Lampaul on the island of Ushant, on the island of Batz and at Ocsimor, now the city of Saint-Pol-de-Léon, where he is said to have founded a monastery in an abandoned fort.

Plumbogummite

The type locality is Huelgoat, Finistère, Brittany, France, and the type material is stored in the Natural History Museum, Paris, France.

Roberto Curilovic

They were sent to the air naval base at Landivisiau in Finistère, north-west France where they then learnt how to fly the AMD-BA Super Étendard, being given up to 50 hours of flight training each.

Saint Tanguy

He founded the abbaye de Saint Matthieu at Le Conquet and is buried at Locmazhé (Finistère).

Samantha Davies

Resident in Kerlin (Trégunc), Brittany, France, Davies trains at "Pôle France, Finistère Course au Large" in Port-La-Forêt (La Forêt-Fouesnant).

Sisters of the Perpetual Adoration

Membership of the congregation is now reduced to 16, all above pension age, living in four communities within the French region of Finistère, with two houses in Brest, one in Quimper, and the motherhouse in Guipavas.


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