Lillie Langtry ( October 13, 1853 – February 12, 1929 ), usually spelled Lily Langtry when she was in the U. S., born Emilie Charlotte Le Breton, was a British music hall singer and stage actress famous for her many stage productions including She Stoops to Conquer, The Lady of Lyons and As You Like It.

Famous residents both past and present have included Victoria's Secret model Adriana Lima, Beyoncé and Jay-Z, Spanish singer Julio Iglesias, his son Enrique Iglesias, pro golfer Raymond Floyd, coaches Rick Pitino and Don Shula, US Senator George Smathers, Sheik Mohammed al-Fassi of Saudi Arabia, television host Don Francisco, billionaire investor Carl Icahn, co-founder of Calvin Klein Barry Schwartz, billionaire developer Donny Soffer, banker and developer Jamie Gilinski, steel executive Leroy Schecter, wireless executive Rajendra Singh, radio magnate Raul Alarcon, real estate billionaire Peter Breton, coal and oil executive Christopher F. Viegas, Perry Ellis head George Feldenkreis, former Philadelphia Eagles owner and billionaire art collector Norman Braman, heiress and philanthropist Suzie Linden, and former cable company CEO Ken Bagwell.

Surprised by this invitation, Prigent wrote a satirical song, " Son Alma Ata " ( later included on Sarac ' h ) about the incongruity for a Breton singer to be sent to perform in Kazakhstan.

A sonneur – or, in Breton, soner ( plural: sonerien ) – is a player of traditional music in Brittany: i. e., someone who plays the bombarde, biniou ( Breton bagpipe ), or clarinet ; as distinct from a kaner, or traditional singer.

Breton harpist and Celtic music exponent Alan Stivell at Nuremberg, Germany, 2007 Gaelic singer Karen Matheson OBE with Capercaillie ( band ) | Capercaillie at Celtic Rock 2007

Alain Chamfort ( born Alain Le Govic ; 2 March 1949 in Paris ) is a French singer of Breton origin.

Alan Stivell ( born Alan Cochevelou January 6, 1944 ) is a Breton musician and singer, recording artist and master of the Celtic harp who from the early 1970s revived global interest in the Celtic ( specifically Breton ) harp and Celtic music as part of world music.

Also in 1970, Breton singer and musician Alan Stivell ( having already played the Celtic Breton harp on stage as a child, and toured since the mid-sixties ) recorded his first professional album, Reflets (" Reflections "), a fusion of Celtic musics with different new experiments and influences.

The title track featured a spoken recitation of the Rimbaud poem " Sensation " by the Breton singer Gilles Servat.

The creator of the present edifice was Francis I, under whom the architect Gilles le Breton erected most of the buildings of the Cour Ovale, including the Porte Dorée, its southern entrance.

Gilles de Rais, a 15th-century aristocrat and prolific serial killer, as well as Conomor the Accursed, an early Breton king, have been suggested as sources for the character of Bluebeard.

Another guitarist of note is Gilles Le Bigot, who performed with Kornog as well and has been a mainstay of the Breton super-group Skolvan for more than 20 years.

He had some influence, mainly in the Breton movement and around, and on some new-comers as the best known, Gilles Servat, whose " La Blanche Hermine " has been a popular Breton anthem since the 1970s.

Gilles Servat, who gave him the award, expressed his admiration for Denez Prigent, who he described as " an artist emblematic of the renewal in Breton expression and in the search for new musicalities ".

Gilles le Breton, who unified the tribes of Bretonnia into a single nation, fought twelve battles against the Orcs-mirroring King Arthur's 12 battles against the Anglo-Saxons.

The first Duke, Landuin, is reputed to be the finest knight of the Companions of Gilles le Breton and presumably the finest Knight ever.

He participated in a literary circle around Jean Voyer and frequented the jurist Gilles Bourdin ( Larivey would write 2 sonnets to his memory ) and met there the dramatists Guillaume Le Breton and François d ' Amboise.

The translation into the Celtic Breton language of the " catechisme de Canisius ," as it was known in France, was accomplished in 1568 by Gilles de Keranpuil, canon of the college of Carhaix and recteur of Motreff ; he introduced his work in his transmittal letter to his superior as the effort '

It created the Ya d ' ar brezhoneg campaign, signed by enterprises, organisations and communes to promote the use of Breton, for example by installing bilingual signage or translating their website.

In the 70s, the Breton Alan Cochevelou ( future Alan Stivell ) began playing a mixed repertoire from the main Celtic countries on the Celtic harp his father created.

Additionally, Louis Breton created an illustration of Buer, later engraved by M. Jarrault, depicting the demon as having the head of a lion and five goat legs surrounding his body to walk in every direction.

The current lineage and title was created in 1675 for Charles Lennox, the illegitimate son of King Charles II of England and a Breton noblewoman called Louise de Kérouaille.

The municipalities from which the CBRM was created include: the Municipality of the County of Cape Breton, the City of Sydney, the Towns of Glace Bay, Sydney Mines, New Waterford, North Sydney, Dominion and Louisbourg.

The Cape Breton Regional Municipality Act was implemented and the CBRM was created on August 1, 1995, whereas the amalgamation in Halifax County didn't take place until April 1, 1996, and Queens County several years later.

The riding of Bras d ' Or was created in 1996 from parts of Cape Breton Highlands — Canso and Cape Breton — East Richmond ridings.

6 .↑ Brigitte Horiot ( linguist, specialist of the dialects between Loire and Gironde, CNRS and University of Lyon III ) wrote ( in “ Les parlers du Sud-Ouest ”, in: “ Français de France et Français du Canada: Les parlers de l ’ Ouest de la France, du Québec et de l ’ Acadie ”, Centre d ’ Etudes Linguistiques Jacques Goudet, Université Lyon III, 1995, p. 228 ) in 1995: « The linguistic description of the ALO ’ s linguistique de l ’ Ouest ( Linguistic Atlas of the West ): Poitou, Aunis, Saintonge, Angoumois area clearly shows the existence between Loire and Gironde of an important linguistic area, created by its geographical situation and its history, and which particularity is to be a transition zone between North and South, between Breton lands and the central region “ Centre ”.

Public domain map of Nova Scotia created by User: Plasma east with data courtesy of Geogratis, modified to highlight Cape Breton Island.

As far as the media are concerned, there is still little Breton to be found on the airwaves, although since 1982 a few Breton-speaking radio stations have been created on an associative basis.

The Breton Revolutionary Army was created in 1971 as the armed wing of the Front de Liberation Breton ( FLB ), in English known as the Breton Liberation Front.

In 1860, a year before a union occurred in the Canadas, the Presbyterian Church of the Lower Provinces was created by the merger of Free Church and United Presbyterian Church congregations in Nova Scotia, including Cape Breton, and Prince Edward Island, and in 1866, they were joined by their compatriots in New Brunswick.

It was created in 1996 from parts of Cape Breton — The Sydneys, Cape Breton — East Richmond and Cape Breton Highlands — Canso ridings.

This riding was created in 1903 from Cape Breton riding.

It was created again in 1924 from Cape Breton South and Richmond.

This riding was created in 1914 from Cape Breton South and Richmond ridings, It consisted of the electoral district of South Cape Breton and the county of Richmond.

This riding was created in 1924 from Cape Breton South and Richmond riding.

This riding was created in 1903 as " North Cape Breton and Victoria "' riding from Cape Breton and Victoria ridings.

William the Breton also says in his column that the two lines of combatants were separated by a small space.

Musician Alan Stivell uses a similar dichotomy, between the Gaelic ( Irish / Scottish / Manx ) and the Brythonic ( Breton / Welsh / Cornish ) branches, which differentiate " mostly by the extended range ( sometimes more than two octaves ) of Irish and Scottish melodies and the closed range of Breton and Welsh melodies ( often reduced to a half-octave ), and by the frequent use of the pure pentatonic scale in Gaelic music.

Outside of America, the first deliberate attempts to create a " Pan-Celtic music " were made by the Breton Taldir Jaffrennou, having translated songs from Ireland, Scotland, and Wales into Breton between the two world wars.

The population of Cape Breton Island has been in decline for almost two decades with an increasing population exodus in recent years due to economic conditions.

In 1784, the two provinces were divided ; Nova Scotia was split into Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Island ( rejoined to Nova Scotia in 1820 ), Prince Edward Island, and New Brunswick, while Quebec was split into Lower Canada ( southern Quebec ) and Upper Canada ( southern through lower northern Ontario ).

" Breton included the idea of the startling juxtapositions in his 1924 manifesto, taking it in turn from a 1918 essay by poet Pierre Reverdy, which said: " a juxtaposition of two more or less distant realities.

In the Declaration of January 27, 1925, for example, members of the Paris-based Bureau of Surrealist Research ( including André Breton, Louis Aragon, and, Antonin Artaud, as well as some two dozen others ) declared their affinity for revolutionary politics.

The château remained in the Le Breton family for more than two centuries until it was acquired by the Marquis de Castellane.

These two marches are often called the Breton March and Norman March respectively.

The last occasion was at the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748, when two British peers, Henry Bowes Howard, 11th Earl of Suffolk, and Charles, 9th Baron Cathcart, were sent to France as hostages for the restitution of Cape Breton to France.

Cape Breton County was divided into two counties in that year, with Victoria County being subdivided at that time.

Much of what is known about Barbauld's life comes from two memoirs, the first published in 1825 and written by her niece Lucy Aikin, the second published in 1874 and written by her great-niece Anna Letitia Le Breton.

In 2005, she worked with Breton musician Yann Tiersen on two songs for his album Les retrouvailles.

In 862 two groups of Vikings — one the larger of two fleets recently forced out of the Seine by Charles the Bald, the other a fleet returning from a Mediterranean expedition — converged on Brittany, where one ( the Mediterranean group ) was hired by the Breton duke Salomon to ravage the Loire valley.

Its crest thickness is, carrying the two vehicle traffic lanes of the Trans-Canada Highway, Nova Scotia Highway 104 on the mainland side, and Nova Scotia Highway 105 on the Cape Breton side, as well as the single track mainline of the Cape Breton and Central Nova Scotia Railway.

In 862 two groups of Vikings — one the larger of two fleets recently forced out of the Seine by Charles the Bald, the other a fleet returning from a Mediterranean expedition — converged on Brittany, where one ( the Mediterranean ) was hired by the Breton duke Salomon to ravage the Loire valley.

Due to human activity, the Canada lynx is no longer found in Prince Edward Island or on the mainland of Nova Scotia, although there are two known areas of Canada lynx populations in the Cape Breton Highlands.

It is a combination of two words found in the Breton language ; men and hir.

The string of Ducal inheritance, from John VI through two sons and back to his brother, illustrates the mode of royal inheritance under Semi-Salic law described as " a la mode de la Bretagne " ( in the Breton fashion ).

( The two had met in 1940, and Breton would champion Cesaire's work.