BRITTANY'S BRIGHT FUTURE (PART 1 – A SHORT HISTORY OF BRITTANY)

On 19th May, all the Bretons in the world will celebrate "Gouel Erwan" (or St-Yew's day, i.e. Britanny's Day!), the equivalent to the Irish St Patrick's Day! Time to look back at what Brittany was in the...

Celtic League - French TV documentary on submarine - fishing vessel losses

The French State Regional broadcaster, France 3, is planning to makea documentary about the mysterious sinking and snagging of motor fishingvessels (MFVs) by submarines over the past several decades.Researchers...

France criticised by UN over Minority Languages Policy

The French government has once again come in for International criticismfor its failure to give appropriate support and recognition to minoritylanguages.In its latest report (E/C.12/FRA/CO/3… May 2008) the...

Mixed messages from French national Assembly on minority languages

The status of the Breton language took an unusual turn last Thursday(22nd May), as a proposed amendment to the French Constitution wasvoted for by the French National Assembly in Paris.The amendment states that...

Censorship and Art

"Very early on, proponents of modernism were demagogued as radicals, anarchists, and communists. This strategy proved spectacularly effective for opponents of modernist designs for public murals, such as Diego Rivera’s infamous Man at the Crossroads. Rivera included an...

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