Finistère
Finistère (, ; ) is a Departments of France, department of France in the extreme west of Brittany. Its prefecture is Quimper and its largest city is Brest, France, Brest. In 2019, it had a population of 915,090.department 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 ...
in north-western
France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlan ...
.
Geography
Guissény is a coastal town on the English Channel that is part of the "pays Pagan". It is limited to the northeast by a marine gulf, the gulf (or cove) of Tressény, into which flows a small coastal river, the Quillimadec, which separates it from Kerlouan. To the west, it is limited by the Porz Olier (its eastern tip containing Dibennou and its western Beg ar Skeïz), a small residual marine gulf that was once much larger. Most of the gulf has been transformed into a polder (La Palud de Curnic, where salt marshes once existed) or pond (Étang du Curnic) due to the construction of a dyke that separates Guissény from Plouguerneau. Guissény extends westward to include a good part of the beach of Vougo - the other part being in Plouguerneau - where the coastal dunes reach an altitude of up to 13 meters at a place called "la Sècherie".
To the west of Curnic, the coastal platform is several hundred meters wide and includes a number of emerged rocky islets: Karreg Hir (the Karreg Hir causeway extends northwest to the rocks of Lizenn Du and includes numerous islets emerging at low tide), Golhédoc, Énez Du, Tilloc, and Énez Croaz-Hent (the latter now being linked to the mainland by a dyke).
Population
The inhabitants of Guissény are called ''Guisséniens'' in French.
Breton language
In 2009, 21.55% of primary-school children attended bilingual schools, where
Breton language
Breton (, , ; or in Morbihan) is a Southwestern Brittonic language of the Celtic languages, Celtic language group spoken in Brittany, part of modern-day France. It is the only Celtic language still widely in use on the European mainland, albei ...
Communes of the Finistère department
The following is a list of the 277 Communes of France, communes of the Finistère Departments of France, department of France.
The communes cooperate in the following Communes of France#Intercommunality, intercommunalities (as of 2025):
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List of the works of Bastien and Henry Prigent
List of works of Bastien and Henry Prigent.
The sculptors or "Ymageurs", Bastien and Henry Prigent ran a workshop (atelier) in Landerneau, Brittany, France from 1527 to 1577 and records show that at least fifty parishes passed orders to them, the ...