Breton
Breton most often refers to:
*anything associated with Brittany, and generally
**Breton people
**Breton language, a Southwestern Brittonic Celtic language of the Indo-European language family, spoken in Brittany
** Breton (horse), a breed
**Gale ...
) is an island on the north coast of
Brittany
Brittany ( ) is a peninsula, historical country and cultural area in the north-west of modern France, covering the western part of what was known as Armorica in Roman Gaul. It became an Kingdom of Brittany, independent kingdom and then a Duch ...
(France), linked to the mainland by a road. Its size is about 2 km by 1 km, and there is a village on the island. It is in the commune of
Pleumeur-Bodou
Pleumeur-Bodou (; ) is a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department of Brittany in northwestern France.
Population
Inhabitants of Pleumeur-Bodou are called ''pleumeurois'' in French.
Sister town
Pleuveur-Bodoù is twinned with Crosshaven, a ...
(department of
Côtes-d'Armor
The Côtes-d'Armor ( , ; ; , ), formerly known as Côtes-du-Nord until 1990 (, ), is a department in the north of Brittany, in northwestern France. In 2019, it had a population of 600,582.Île Aganton, is to the west, adjacent to Île-Grande. On the coast,
gallery grave
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). The site is known as ''Ty-Lia'' or ''Ty-ar-C'horrandoned''. Constructed in
Neolithic
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times, its size is about 9 metres by 1.5 metres; several upright stones support two large stone slabs.
Literary associations
The writer
Joseph Conrad
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stayed at a house in ÃŽle-Grande from 7 April to 14 August 1896, during his honeymoon. He worked there on his novel '' The Rescue''. His short story "
The Idiots
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