Brittany

Celtic Brittany — a Breton-speaking, maritime, intensely Catholic and traditionalist nation. Its very name comes from the Brittonic Britons who fled here from Anglo-Saxon Britain in the 5th–6th centuries, making it culturally a sister of Wales and Cornwall rather than of Gaul; an independent kingdom and then duchy, it entered France only through the marriage of its last duchess and the union of 1532. Its standing stones and Arthurian legends predate France, and it was a stronghold of the Vendée-style counter-revolution in the 1790s. Long resentful of Parisian centralism, it sustains a proud identity today through fishing, the Pardons and the festoù-noz and bagad pipe bands.

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