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4 unusual facts about Quimperlé


Alain Canhiart

Benoît - Abbot of the Abbey of Sainte-Croix de Quimperlé in 1066, elected Bishop of Nantes in 1079, consecrated in 1081; retired in 1114 and murdered in 1115

Émile Jourdan

Émile Jourdan (30 July 1860, Vannes – 29 December 1931, Quimperlé) was a French painter who became one of the artists who gathered in the village of Pont-Aven in Brittany.

Gurthiern

was a Welsh prince who, according to the Vita sancta Gurthierni, became a hermit in Brittany, and founder of an abbey at Kemperle (Quimperlé).

Osgood Mackenzie

Mackenzie was born on 13 May 1842, at the Chateau de Talhouet, near Quimperlé, in Morbihan, Brittany.


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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).


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