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Breton got to know Martinican writer Aimé Césaire, and later composed the introduction to the 1947 edition of Césaire's Cahier d ' un retour au pays natal.
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According to both Pasteur Vallery-Radot and Maurice Vallery-Radot, the following well-known quotation attributed to Pasteur is apocryphal: " The more I know, the more nearly is my faith that of the Breton peasant.
Could I but know all I would have the faith of a Breton peasant's wife ".
After a conference at the National Autonomous University of Mexico about surrealism, Breton stated after getting lost in Mexico City ( as no one was waiting for him at the airport ) " I don't know why I came here.
This prompted G. K. Chesterton to write a satirical poem, “ Antichrist, Or the Reunion of Christendom: An Ode ”, which asked if Breton sailors, Russian peasants and Christians evicted by the Turks would know or care of what happened to the Anglican Church of Wales, and answered the question with the line “ Chuck it, Smith ”.
From descriptions in Marie's lais, and in several anonymous Old French lais of the 13th century, we know of earlier lais of Celtic origin, perhaps more lyrical in style, sung by Breton minstrels.
The name Artognou means " Bear Knowing ", from the Brittonic root * arto " bear " plus * gnāwo-" to know ", and is cognate with the Old Breton name Arthnou and Welsh Arthneu.
In the period before the Second World War, he came to know Paul Éluard, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, André Breton, and Paul Valéry.
Breton and writer
Alfred Jarry ( 8 September 1873 – 1 November 1907 ) was a French writer born in Laval, Mayenne, France, not far from the border of Brittany ; he was of Breton descent on his mother's side.
* Farley Mowat, writer, has his summer residence in Cape Breton.
Meeting the young writer Jacques Vaché, Breton felt that Vaché was the spiritual son of writer and pataphysics founder Alfred Jarry.
* February 18 – André Breton, French writer ( d. 1966 )
** André Breton, French writer ( b. 1896 )
André Breton (; 19 February 1896 – 28 September 1966 ) was a French writer and poet.
In the early 1920s, the Surrealist writer André Breton discovered one of De Chirico's metaphysical paintings on display in Paul Guillaume's Paris gallery, and was enthralled.
* André Breton French writer, poet, surrealist
Pêr-Jakez Helias, the Breton writer, has dedicated a poem to Dolly Pentreath.
The surrealist writer André Breton declared that, while working on his novel Arcane 17, as he stayed in Percé ( 1944 ), he would never tire watching the birds of the Island.
A very influential, yet extremely succinct writer, he has been a cult author for a number of renowned figures of contemporary literature and thought such as André Breton, Jorge Luis Borges, Roberto Juarroz and Henry Miller, amongst others.
* André Breton, French writer
After the end of the war he joined the Dada movement and soon after, in 1921, he published Le Passager du transtlantique – his first book of poetry before he abandoned the Dada movement to follow, instead, André Breton and the emerging Surrealist movement whereupon he worked alongside, and influencing, the Mexican writer Octavio Paz.
In 1937 the Surrealist writer André Breton opened an art gallery on the Left Bank, 31 rue de Seine, christening it with the title: Gradiva.
Perrot had been decorated for his services in World War I, but was a native speaker and leading cultural Breton nationalist, a playwright and writer, involved in devising a standard orthography for the language.
* Malan Breton ( born 1973 ), Taiwanese-born fashion designer, media personality, writer, costume designer, philanthropist, and contestant on the third season of the American television show Project Runway
* Tangi Malmanche, Breton writer
The Cornish writer Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (" Q ") started Castle Dor, a retelling of the Tristan and Iseult myth in modern circumstances with an innkeeper in the role of King Mark, his wife as Iseult and a Breton onion-seller as Tristan, the plot set in " Troy ", his name for his home town of Fowey.
In Paris, he became acquainted with a number of people, such as Louis Aragon, a French writer and one of the leaders of Dada and surrealism, who influenced him artistically and introduced him to André Breton, poet and critic.
Bernard Le Nail ( February 1946 – 5 January 2010 ) was a French writer and Breton militant.
Breton and Aimé
Monnerot perhaps makes it the original document of what is later called ' black Surrealism ', although it is the contact between Aimé Césaire and Breton in the 1940s in Martinique that really lead to the communication of what is known as ' black Surrealism '.
* Jules Adolphe Aimé Louis Breton, painter
Jules Adolphe Aimé Louis Breton ( 1 May 1827 – 5 July 1906 ) was a 19th-century French Realist painter.
The title comes from a painting of the same name by Jules Adolphe Aimé Louis Breton.
Breton and later
Industrial Cape Breton has historically been a region of labour activism, electing Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( and later NDP ) MPs, and even produced many early members of the Communist Party of Canada in the pre-World War II era.
Breton himself later admitted that automatic writing's centrality had been overstated, and other elements were introduced, especially as the growing involvement of visual artists in the movement forced the issue, since automatic painting required a rather more strenuous set of approaches.
Even though Breton by 1946 responded rather negatively to the subject of music with his essay Silence is Golden, later Surrealists, such as Paul Garon, have been interested in — and found parallels to — Surrealism in the improvisation of jazz and the blues.
While Dalí may have been excommunicated by Breton, he neither abandoned his themes from the 1930s, including references to the " persistence of time " in a later painting, nor did he become a depictive pompier.
" Nonetheless, the Cubist poets ' influence on both Cubism and the later movements of Dada and Surrealism was profound ; Louis Aragon, founding member of Surrealism, said that for Breton, Soupault, Éluard and himself, Reverdy was " our immediate elder, the exemplary poet.
Modern historians believe that this idea of mass British troop settlement in Brittany by Maximus may very well reflect some reality, as it accords with other historical evidence and later Breton traditions.
Revolving around celestial symbolism, Constellations earned the artist praise from André Breton, who seventeen years later wrote a series of poems, named after and inspired by Miró's series.
Only those who ruled a united Neustrian march are included, though the title " of Neustria " was carried by the earlier margraves of the Breton and Norman marches, the most notable by Robert the Strong, ancestor of these later Capetians.
The name is generally considered to be of Welsh origin ( though an Old Cornish or Old Breton origin is also possible ), derived from Old Welsh abal, " apple ", or aball, " apple tree " ( in later Middle Welsh spelled aval, avall ; now Modern Welsh afal, afall ).
The city was founded sometime between 1760 and 1780 as " Mine á Breton " or Mine au Breton, and later renamed by Moses Austin for the Bolivian silver-mining city of Potosí.
In 1851, Victoria County was formed out of the northeastern part of Cape Breton County and a year later, in 1852, the present boundaries of Cape Breton County were defined by the colonial government in Halifax.
In Brittany electric folk was pioneered by Alan Stivell ( who began to mix his Breton, Irish, and Scottish roots with rock music ) and later by French bands like Malicorne.
This time it was recaptured by Breton troops of Giovanni Acuto ( the English-born condottiere John Hawkwood ) under the command of Robert, Cardinal of Geneva, ( later antipope Clement VII ).
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.
Ys ( pronounced ), also spelled Is or Kêr-Is in Breton, and Ker-Ys in French ( kêr means city in Breton ), is a mythical city that was built on the coast of Brittany and later swallowed by the ocean.
Dominion Tar's first plant was located in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, and began operations just eight months later.
At about the same time, the Earldom fell to the originally Breton FitzAlan family, a younger branch of which went on to become the Stuart family which later ruled Scotland.
Breton later despised her, claiming she was a destructive influence on the artists she befriended.
Originally coterminous with the ecclesiastical province of Rouen composed of the northern portion of the province of Neustria that was centered around Rouen on the Seine, it was later expanded by Rollo's conquests southward to include the areas of Évreux and Alençon and westward into Breton territory.
Following the Norman conquest of England William I awarded land which later became known as Drayton Beauchamp to Robert, Earl of Morton who as Magno le Breton had accompanied William at the time of the Norman Invasion in 1066.
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