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6 unusual facts about Quimper


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.

Daniel du Janerand

and in 1985, one for S.N.C.F. (French railways company) at Quimper (Brittany).

Fernand Dauchot

The painter is famous for his superb landscapes of France's Brittany region, and his works belong to several public collections, among them the Museum of Art of the city of Quimper.

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.

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.

The Sisters of the Perpetual Adoration are a Roman Catholic religious congregation founded at Quimper, Brittany, by Father François-Marie Langrez (1787 - 1862).


Adolphe Beaufrère

Adolphe Beaufrère (Quimper March 24, 1876–February 16, 1960 Larmor-Plage) was a French painter, illustrator, and engraver.

Battle of Camaret

The cavalry regiments and dragoons were positioned at Landerneau and Quimper and, to enable the fast transmission of information, Vauban organised a communications code in the form of signals.

Box-bed

Fine pieces were put in museums (Lampaul-Guimiliau, Nantes, Quimper, Rennes, St-Brieuc), while most of them were converted into bookshelves, dressers or TV cabinets.

Colan Church

There are two other churches dedicated to him, one at Llangollen in North Wales, the other at Langolen near Quimper in Brittany.

Eugène Le Moult

Eugène Le Moult (31 December 1882, Quimper - 26 January 1967, Paris) was a French naturalist and entomologist.

Mathurin Méheut

Between world wars, he illustrated books for authors including Colette, Maurice Genevoix, and Pierre Loti, and created ceramics at Henriot in Quimper, at the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres, and at Villeroy & Boch in Sarre.

Morgane Tschiember

She graduated from DNSAP from ESNAB in Paris (National School of Fine Arts) in 2002 and DNSEP (National School of Artistic Expression) in Quimper in 1999.

Nazca

Two days earlier, on October 12 General Juan Antonio Álvarez de Arenales, from Ica, was sent to the South in pursuit of the royalist troops of Colonel Manuel Quimper getaways from Ica, in its second and chief of staff of the Division de la Sierra, the Argentine Manuel Rojas Argerich Lieutenant Colonel in command of 250 men: 110 infantry and 140 cavalry.

Open BNP Paribas Banque de Bretagne

The Open BNP Paribas Banque de Bretagne is a tennis tournament held in Quimper, France since 2011.

Pêr-Jakez Helias

His best-selling work is his autobiographical Le cheval d'orgueil, or The Horse of Pride, adapted for cinema by Claude Chabrol in 1980, rooted in the Bigoudenn area south of Kemper.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Quimper

Originally established in the 5th century, the diocese was restored by the Concordat of 1801, as the combination of the dioceses of Quimper, Saint-Pol-de-Léon and Tréguier in Brittany, France.


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