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... " Les Bretons " and other works , gives most realistic as well as most poetic pictures of the manners and customs of his countrymen . * " Ballads and Songs of Brittany . " The last province is Tréguier , which answers as nearly.
... " Les Bretons " and other works , gives most realistic as well as most poetic pictures of the manners and customs of his countrymen . * " Ballads and Songs of Brittany . " The last province is Tréguier , which answers as nearly.
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South Brittany Katharine Sarah Macquoid. The last province is Tréguier , which answers as nearly as possible to the Côtes du Nord . The Trégorrois at first sight is less intensely national than either the man of Vannes , of Léon , or of ...
South Brittany Katharine Sarah Macquoid. The last province is Tréguier , which answers as nearly as possible to the Côtes du Nord . The Trégorrois at first sight is less intensely national than either the man of Vannes , of Léon , or of ...
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... nearly facing it the ruins of Champtoceaux , where Clisson's daughter , the cruel Margaret de Penthièvre , imprisoned her sovereign , John V. of Brittany , to avenge the treason of the duke's father , John IV . , towards her own father ...
... nearly facing it the ruins of Champtoceaux , where Clisson's daughter , the cruel Margaret de Penthièvre , imprisoned her sovereign , John V. of Brittany , to avenge the treason of the duke's father , John IV . , towards her own father ...
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... Cours St. André reaches nearly to the Erdre , and has at that end statues of Olivier de Clisson and of Bertrand du Guesclin , the famous Breton , whose fame and exploits seem to pervade the whole province , although the.
... Cours St. André reaches nearly to the Erdre , and has at that end statues of Olivier de Clisson and of Bertrand du Guesclin , the famous Breton , whose fame and exploits seem to pervade the whole province , although the.
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... nearly all of them re- main . Inside the town there seem to be plenty of quaint old houses , surrounded by their gardens . While our breakfast was getting ready we went on to the church . It is a fine , impressive building . The older ...
... nearly all of them re- main . Inside the town there seem to be plenty of quaint old houses , surrounded by their gardens . While our breakfast was getting ready we went on to the church . It is a fine , impressive building . The older ...
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