Sir Richard le Breton or Richard de Brito (fl. 1170) was one of the four knights who in 1170 murdered Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury. Roger Brito...
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Breton nationalism (Breton: Broadelouriezh Vrezhon, French: Nationalisme breton) is the nationalism of the historical province of Brittany, France. Brittany...
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Breton (/ˈbrɛtən/, BRET-ən, French: [bʁətɔ̃]; endonym: brezhoneg [bʁeˈzɔ̃ːnɛk] or [bɾəhɔ̃ˈnek] in Morbihan) is a Southwestern Brittonic language of the...
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The Trait Breton is a French breed of draught horse. It originated in Brittany, in north-west France, from cross-breeding of local horses with various...
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Louis-Justin Breton, was a policeman and atheist, and his mother, Marguerite-Marie-Eugénie Le Gouguès, was a former seamstress. Breton attended medical...
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and Breton culture. The Union was created in August 1898, in Morlaix, following festivals devoted to Breton culture. It was chaired by Anatole Le Braz...
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written as a departure gift for another court composer, Simon le Breton. Another of his rondeaux, Le souvenir de vous me tue, was exceedingly famous, and...
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Tri Yann (category Pages with Breton IPA)
Tri Yann (Breton pronunciation: [ˈtriː ˈjãnː]) is a French band from Nantes who play folk rock music drawing on traditional Breton folk ballads. The band...
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Daphne Charlotte Le Breton (1 August 1932 – 25 March 2000) was a New Zealand international lawn bowler. Le Breton represented New Zealand at the Commonwealth...
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The Breton bidet is a type of bidet, a small horse bred in Brittany. Characterized by its ability to move at amble, and bred for its working strength,...
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Cécile Corbel (category Breton musicians)
Italian, Breton, and English and has done songs in Spanish, German, Japanese, Irish, and Turkish. Her lifelong partner is songwriter Simon Caby, who...
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Morgan le Fay, though this has been a matter of debate among Arthurian scholars since the 19th century (the epithet Tud may be a Welsh or Breton cognate...
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Holt as Dean Le Breton Peggy Ann Wood as Mrs Le Breton Anthony Head as William Le Breton John Castle as Prince Louis of Battenberg Simon Fisher-Turner...
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institution within the Cape Breton Regional Municipality and on Cape Breton Island. The university is enabled by the Cape Breton University Act passed by...
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Breton Democratic Union (French: Union démocratique bretonne, Breton: Unvaniezh Demokratel Breizh, UDB) is a Breton nationalist, autonomist, and regionalist...
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Vikings in Brittany (section Norse-Breton alliance)
Hastein's Norse in 865 united with the Bretons again to defeat a Frankish army at the Battle of Brissarthe, near modern-day Le Mans. Two Frankish leaders, Robert...
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a Canadian short drama film, directed by Simon Laganière and released in 2021. The film stars Stéphane Breton as Bonus, a divorced father whose son Mimine...
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Saint Piran's Flag (category Articles containing Breton-language text)
Geoffroy le Borgne Arms of the Arnèke family Arms of Rouvroy de Saint-Simon Arms of Saint-Pezran family (Brittany) Several other French and Breton families...
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Charles Le Goffic (14 July 1863 – 12 February 1932) was a Breton poet, novelist and historian whose influence was especially strong in his native Brittany...
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Breton saints refers to one of two groups, the innumerable people who lived, died, worked in, or came to be particularly venerated in the nine traditional...
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(English) J.M.G Le Clézio —Photos by Mathieu Bourgois. J.M.G. Le Clézio, about his Breton origins. "Nobel Goes Global With Literary Prize", by Bob Thompson...
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first played the game, "Le cadavre exquis boira le vin nouveau." ("The exquisite corpse shall drink the new wine.") André Breton writes that the game developed...
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Surrealism (section Post-Breton Surrealism)
dreamlike scenes and ideas. Its intention was, according to leader André Breton, to "resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality...
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Simon was born at Lorient. His father was a linen-draper from Lorraine, who renounced Protestantism before his second marriage with a Catholic Breton...
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List of composers from Brittany (redirect from List of Breton composers)
(1846–1904) Alan Simon (born 1964) Didier Squiban (born 1959) Alan Stivell (born 1944) Louis Vuillemin (1879–1929) Website dedicated to Breton composers in...
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guesting. Simon is associated with Breton Celticism, and his most ambitious works are typically on themes linked to Celtic myth and history. Simon has also...
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Denez Prigent (category Articles with Breton-language sources (br))
Denez Prigent (Breton pronunciation: [ˈdẽːnes ˈpriːʒẽn(t)]; born 17 February 1966 in Santec, Finistère) is a Breton folk singer-songwriter of the gwerz...
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The presence of horses in Breton culture is reflected in the strong historical attachment of the Bretons to this animal, and in religious and secular traditions...
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This version was commemorated by the Breton poet Théodore Botrel. A similar version is portrayed by Alan Simon in the song Marie la Cordelière from Anne...
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