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Pays Bigouden
Bigouden (Breton: ''Bro-Vigoudenn''; French: ''Pays Bigouden''), historically known as Cap Caval, is, along the Bay of Audierne, the most south-western area of ''Bro Kernev'' in Brittany, south-west of Quimper, defined since 1790 in the French department of Finistère. The designation was an informal label taken from the name of the distinctive headdress traditionally worn by the local women. ''Gallica''''Brittany & Its Byways p. 258''/ref> By the end of the 19th century, the name then slipped to designate the women of the area, then to describe all its inhabitants. It has since been formalised within the administration and promotion of the region. Geography This traditional area constitutes since French revolution a grouping of three cantons: Guilvinec, Pont-l'Abbé and Plogastel-Saint-Germain. Its capital is Pont-l'Abbé. The Bigouden is currently divided into two communities of communes: ''Communauté de communes du Pays Bigouden Sud'' and ''Communauté de communes du Haut Pay ...
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Pays Bigouden Traditional District Flag
In France, a ''pays'' () is an area whose inhabitants share common geographical, economic, cultural, or social interests, who have a right to enter into communal planning contracts under a law known as the Loi Pasqua or LOADT (''Loi d'Orientation pour l'Aménagement et le Développement du Territoire''; en, Directive law concerning territorial planning and development), which took effect on February 4, 1995. It was augmented on June 25, 1999, by the Loi Voynet or LOADDT (''Loi d'Orientation de l'Aménagement Durable du Territoire''). The LOADDT enables the citizens of a community to form a legally recognized ''pays'' after deciding to do so by mutual consent; its aim is to help bring the inhabitants of urban and neighboring rural districts into dialogue and agreement. The Council of Development in each ''pays'' assembles together the elected officials and the economic, social, and cultural actors, and their associates, into a deliberative forum to discuss the development polici ...
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Saint-Jean-Trolimon
Saint-Jean-Trolimon (; ) is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in north-western France. Population Inhabitants of Saint-Jean-Trolimon are called in French ''Trolimonais''. Breton language The municipality launched a linguistic plan concerning the Breton language through Ya d'ar brezhoneg on 17 September 2004. 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):The Calvary at Tronoën


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Cap Sizun
The Cap Sizun (; br, Ar C'hab) is a headland forming the western extremity of the Cornouaille, in the French département of Finistère in Brittany, corresponding to the former canton of Pont-Croix. The best known sites in this region are the pointe du Raz, the pointe du Van, and, between these two points, the baie des Trépassés. The Cap Sizun reaches out into the Atlantic Ocean, bordered to the north by the baie de Douarnenez, and to the south by the baie d'Audierne. The territory of Cap Sizun is formed by the communes of Pont-Croix, Audierne, Plouhinec, Confort-Meilars, Mahalon, Esquibien, Beuzec-Cap-Sizun, Goulien, Cléden-Cap-Sizun, Primelin, Plogoff Plogoff (; br, Plougoñ) is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in north-western France. It contains three small ports suitable for small vessels: Pors-Loubous, Feunten-Aod and Bestrée. Local industries include tourism, traditi ... and the Île-de-Sein. This territory is covered by a commonal ...
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René Quillivic
René Quillivic (1879–1969) was a French sculptor whose art expressed Breton cultural identity. His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1928 Summer Olympics. Life René Quillivic was born on 13 May 1879 in the town of Plouhinec, Finistère, in a small house bordering one side of what is currently known as the "Place Jean Cosquer". He came from a family of fishermen, but was apprenticed to a carpenter. He decided to pursue an artistic career as a sculptor and was accepted by the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he joined the workshop of Antonin Mercier. He exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon des Artistes Français. In 1907, he won the Gold Medal at the Salon des Beaux-Arts for ' (Group of Breton Pipers). The following year, another of his works, ''La Brodeuse de Pont-l'Abbé'' (Pont-l'Abbé Embroiderer), gave him access to funds for travels to North Africa and Italy. He pursued his career creating pub ...
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Pêr-Jakez Helias
Pêr-Jakez Helias, baptised Pierre-Jacques Hélias, ''nom de plume'' Pierre-Jakez Hélias (1914–1995) was a Breton stage actor, journalist, author, poet, and writer for radio who worked in the French and Breton languages. For many years he directed a weekly radio programme in the Breton language and co-founded a summer festival at Quimper which became the Festival de Cornouaille. Life and work Helias was born in 1914 in Pouldreuzig, Penn-ar-Bed, Brittany. His father, Pierre-Alain Hélias, was a native of the nearby village of Plozévet. Helias' mother, Marie-Jeanne Le Goff, had grown up in Pouldreuzic, to which her husband moved after their wedding in 1913. Hélias' paternal grandfather, Yann Helias, was a tenant farmer, sabot-maker, and storyteller known in Plozévet as ''Yann ar Burzudou'' ("Yann the Wonder-Man"). Pierre-Alain Hélias had previously served at Vannes in an artillery unit of the French Army and, upon the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, he was recalled ...
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FIL 2009 - Coiffes Bretonnes - Bigoudènes - Cercle Ar Vro Vigoudenn
FIL or Fil may refer to: People * Father-in-law * Fil Barlow (born 1963), Australian cartoonist * Fil Delacruz (born 1950), Filipino artist * Fil Fraser (1932–2017), Canadian broadcaster, filmmaker, civil servant and educator * Fil Hearn (born 1938), American architectural and art historian * Joseph Fil (born 1953), American army general * Svitlana Fil (born 1969), Soviet rower * Zbigniew Fil (born 1977), Polish musician Sport * Federation of International Lacrosse * Florida Instructional League, an American baseball league * Florida International League, a defunct American baseball league * International Luge Federation Other uses * Al-Fil, the 105th sura of the Qur'an * Fidelity International Limited, an American investment management company * FIL file (other) * Filipino language * Filmjölk, a Swedish fermented milk product ** Viili, a variant * Firestone Indy Lights, an American developmental automobile racing series * Functional Imaging Laboratory, ...
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Tréogat
Tréogat () is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in north-western France. Population Inhabitants of Tréogat are called ''Tréogatais'' in French. 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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Pouldreuzic
Pouldreuzic (; , ) is a commune in the Finistère department, Brittany, northwestern France. The writer Pêr-Jakez Helias was born and lived here; the "Maison de Pierre-Jakez Hélias" is now a museum: an early 20th-century house illustrating the writer's daily life. There are historic churches of St Faron and Lababan and the chapel of Our Lady of Penhors. Also in the commune is the Musée de l'Amiral. Population Inhabitants of Pouldreuzic are called in French ''Pouldreuzicois''. 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):
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Plonéour-Lanvern
Plonéour-Lanvern (; br, Ploneour-Lanwern) is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in north-western France. Toponymy and originate The name Plonéour means in Breton Saint Enéour's plou (parish), to which was added the name of Lanvern (which comes from the Breton lan (hermitage) and of the name Wern or Guern which means swamp of alders) when this former(old) parish was connected with the municipality recently created by Plonéour in 1793. The legend says that the menhir which raises itself(draws up itself) on the central place(square) of Plonéour-Lanvern would be the mast of the boat which would have brought saint Enéour of Great Britain in Cornouaille. The Breton name of the municipality is Ploneour-Lanwern. Geography The River of Pont-l'abbé and the stretch of water of the New Mill The River of Pont-l'abbot rises near Kerfioret, in the municipal limit between Landudec and Plogastel-Saint-Germain, in passer-by in the West-southwest of the village of th ...
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Plovan
Plovan (; ) is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in north-western France. Population Inhabitants of Plovan are called in French ''Plovanais''. 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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Peumerit
Peumerit (; ) formerly Peumérit,Since 1 August 2012, is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in north-western France. Population Inhabitants of Peumerit are called in French ''Peumeritois''. History Modern period This municipally is known for facts related to the revolt of "bonnets rouges" traduce, the red caps, in 1675. In 1759, an order from Louis XV order to the parish of Peumerit to provide 20 men and to pay 131 livres for "the annual expense of the coastguard of Britain". French Revolution The parish of Peumerit, which included 140 fires, elects two delegates, Alain Le Brun and Pierre Canevet, for represent it to the third-state assembly of the seneschal of Quimper, in the spring of 1789. The 20th Century A political and religious life agitated The expulsion of the clergy of the Peumerit Parish trains on the 11 March 1909 the decision of M.Duparc to ban all the religious ringtones, even for ''the Angélus'' and funerals, a priest installed in the ...
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