Jean-Marie Déguignet
Jean-Marie Déguignet (19 July 1834 – 29 August 1905) was a Brittany, Breton soldier, farmer, salesman, shopkeeper, and writer who is best known for his memoirs illuminating the life of the rural poor of 19th-century France. Life Déguignet was born into a farming family in south-west Brittany.. He spent time in the army—he was posted as far away as Mexico—and fought in the Crimean War, Crimea.. His love of learning, and the extensive and eclectic nature of his studies and travel while a young man, led him to freethought and atheism..The editor of , Bernez Rouz, notes in his introduction that Déguignet lost his faith as a soldier while "on furlough in Jerusalem, […] revolted by the commercial practices around pilgrimage." In 1868, having finished his last stint in the military and accumulated some respectable savings, he returned to his childhood home of Quimper. There he reluctantly married the 19-year-old daughter of a farmer's widow in Toulven (south of Quimper), w ...
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Guengat
Guengat () is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in northwestern France. Population Inhabitants of Guengat are called in French ''Guengatais''. See also *Communes of the Finistère department The following is a list of the 277 communes of the Finistère department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2022):Mayors of Finistère Association
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