A crêpe is a Breton variety of thin pancake cooked on one or both sides in a special crepe pan or on a crepe maker to achieve a network of fine bubbles often compared to lace – a savory variety made from buckwheat is usually known as a galette.

It is a popular food item during the Christmas season ( Christmas Eve to Epiphany ) in Mexico, France, Belgium, Quebec and Switzerland ( galette or gâteau des Rois ), Portugal ( bolo rei ), Spain, and Spanish America ( roscón or rosca de reyes and tortell in Catalonia ), Greece and Cyprus ( vasilopita ) and Bulgaria ( banitsa ).

The galette des Rois is made with puff pastry and frangipane ( while the gâteau des Rois is made with brioche and candied fruits ).

La galette des Rois ( literally " the flat pastry cake of the Kings "), a cake celebrating Epiphany, is traditionally sold and consumed a few days before and after this date.

Therefore, a traditional galette without figurine or crown is served at Elysée Palace in January.

One notable type is the galette des Rois ( King cake ) eaten on the day of Epiphany.

In French Canada, the term galette is usually applied to pastries best described as large cookies.

Galette, or more properly Breton galette (, ), is also the name given in most French crêperies to savoury buckwheat flour pancakes, while those made from wheat flour, much smaller in size and mostly served with a sweet filling, are branded crêpes.

One of the most popular varieties is a galette covered with grated Emmental cheese, a slice of ham and an egg, cooked on the galette.

In France, this is known as a galette complète ( a complete galette ).

A hot sausage wrapped in a galette ( called galette saucisse, a tradition of Rennes, France ) and eaten like a hot dog is becoming increasingly popular as well.

There is a children's song about galette:

The island is more commonly known as " La grande galette " ( The Big Cookie ) due to its round shape and almost flat surface ( its highest peak, the Morne Constant Hill, rises up to 670 ft ).

The name " galette " came from the French word galet (" pebble "), since the first gallettes were made on a large pebble heated in a fire.

** the Breton galette or crêpe, a thin buckwheat flour pancake popular in Brittany.

In France people eat gâteau des Rois in Provence ( made of brioche ) or the galette des Rois ( puff pastry with almond cream ) in the northern half of France and Belgium.

Related culinary traditions are the tortell of Catalonia, the gâteau des Rois in Provence or the galette des Rois in the northern half of France, and the Greek and Cypriot vasilopita.

" In the galette des Rois, since 1870 the beans have been replaced first by porcelain and now by plastic figurines.

The principal Breton party, the Union démocratique bretonne ( UDB ) is classed as regionalist rather than separatist ( or nationalist strictly speaking ) by Parisian electoral analysts, as the UDB seeks devolution rather than full independence.

In the early 1970s, he founded the Breton separatist newspaper le Nation bretonne with Alain Guel and Glenmor, where he published lyrics under the pseudonym of " Saint HERBOTS ", among others.

The same year, he wrote a book on the Celtic harp in collaboration with Jean-Noël Verdier: Telenn, la harpe bretonne (" Telenn, the Breton harp ").

* Charles-Armand Tuffin, Marquis de la Rouërie, Chef de la conjuration bretonne.

Une Famille bretonne du XIIIe.

* Le Marquis de la Rouërie et la Conjuration bretonne.

* Le marquis de la Rouerie " Colonel Armand " de la guerre américaine à la conjuration bretonne Christian Bazin. Perrin. 1990

Alan Stivell writes in his book Telenn, la harpe bretonne of his first dreams of electric harps going back to the late 1950s.

*' Culture bretonne: Décès de Bernard Le Nail ', Le Telegramme, 6 janvier 2010.

Between every " suites " ( three dances ), there is a small break where dancers socialise by speaking very easily to the other dancers or by having a local snack: crêpes, galettes-saucisses, far breton, kouign amann and drinks like cider, beer, and chouchen, a drink made from fermenting honey in water.

One famous design which became typical for Quimper faience is the " petit breton ", a naive representation of Breton man and / or woman in traditional Breton costume.

The " petit breton " became popular around 1870 and is still today the main design bought by tourists.

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File: Cape breton island 3. jpg | A bulk carrier in the Strait of Canso docked at the Martin Marietta Materials quarry located at Cape Porcupine.

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Le Substrat celtique du lai breton anglais: Sir Orfeo.

hu: I. Gottfried breton herceg

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Had the situation been reversed, had, for instance, England been the enemy in 1898 because of issues of concern chiefly to New England, there is little doubt that large numbers of Southerners would have happily put on their old Confederate uniforms to fight as allies of Britain.

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