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Nantes , last Saturday. Several thousand marchers were crying out for the reattachment of the Loire-Atlantique department to Brittany. [...

When I was a child in Grafton, I started to dislike bagpipes of the Scottish variety. I simply found their sounds unpleasant. More recently,...

The municipal authorities do their best to inform visitors that they must not forget that the tide rises and falls once a day... as it ...

Click here  to see a video about a DNA trial carried out this weekend in a French village,  Trélivan (Côtes-d'Armor), in the hope of id...

Up until recently, I was constantly puzzled by the question of the not-so-distant places that could or could not be observed from the house ...

Marc Pointud  isn't getting paid to look after the ancient lighthouse of Tévennec  for two months, nor was he washed up here after a shi...

Here's a photo of the English Channel, looking towards the east, viewed from above the tip of Brittany. The image was obtained by the fi...

I've just heard that, for the first time since the creation in 1992 of the Breton King Scallop Festival ( fête de la coquille Saint-Jac...

A fabulous French catamaran named the Flying Phantom was introduced to the international sailing world at the Paris Boat Show 2013. Its rev...

Maybe (surely) I've retained far too little, sadly, from my relationship with my Breton ex-wife Christine Mafart ... apart from two bril...

You probably saw the story in the world media, a few weeks ago, about the French actor Gérard Depardieu at the start of a flight from Dubli...

Electricité de France ( EDF ), the national French electricity authority, has purchased a series of four giant tidal-energy turbines, which...

A few weeks ago, I spoke of the beautiful maiden named Nolwenn [ display ] who lives deep in a dark forest somewhere in Brittany, surround...

Hordes of tourists visit France constantly. Many spend their time in places such as Paris, the Loire Valley and Provence. Some people, gener...

Christine phoned early this morning to inform me that her father, aged 94, had finally slipped away peacefully yesterday evening. In the co...

The excellent Gallica service provides a copy of this delightful illustration that accompanied an article entitled "Punishment for fli...

I thought I knew a thing or two about what goes on in the native land of my ex-wife Christine , but I've had occasions to discover that ...

I'm sure you won't believe me, but I'll nevertheless reveal, tardily, the truth. As an adolescent, about to start university stu...

During my week in Brittany, the focal point of my attention was my son's recently-acquired house on the cliff tops at Plouha. To a casua...

My short trip to Brittany is drawing to an end. Yesterday afternoon, we returned to the cliffs of Plouha to inspect the work being carried o...