Word: breton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very first day of the trial, one of the accused, Dr. Yves Gourvès, 25, declared through his lawyer that he would need an interpreter because he spoke only Breton, the native Celtic tongue of Brittany. Up rose District Attorney Pierre Aguiton with an objection. "The defendant speaks and understands French perfectly," he protested. "Otherwise, how could he have finished his medical studies? Besides, he answered pretrial questioning in French." Retorted Gourvès' lawyer, Henri Leclerc: "He may have forgotten his French in jail." The chief judge, François Romerio, asked Gourv...
Defense lawyers argued that the accused were not anarchists bent on gaining Brittany's total independence from France but responsible autonomists who had been forced to resort to violence to dramatize their cause. Their principal aims: the right of Bretons to speak their own tongue and a Breton legislative assembly with some control over the use of taxes raised in Brittany. Among the supporting witnesses called by the defenders was a World War II French underground hero, General Jacques Paris de Bollardière, who declared: "The actions these Bretons are accused of I myself committed during the Resistance...
Madness threatens to become the fashion in the arts, not as the stuff of drama and melodrama (it has always been that) but as an aesthetic creed. Some of the best, as well as some of the worst, novelists of the '70s are carrying out French Surrealist Andre Breton's definition of art as "a cry of the mind against itself." In Luke Rhinehart's The Dice Man, a psychiatrist systematically freaks out, illustrating the advantages of what might be termed "planned madness." In Briefing for a Descent into Hell, Doris Lessing suggests that madmen...
...Britanny, Sept. 10-30, 1972, $425. Breton archeology and ecclesiastical architecture...
Sheer Will. Ironically, the decline set in when De Chirico resolved to be a Great Artist in the traditional, Italian sense of the word. "I have been tormented by one problem for almost three years now-the problem of craftsmanship," he wrote to Breton in 1922. The gulf between the early work and De Chirico's St. George Killing the Dragon, 1940, can only be explained in terms of this problem. St. George, with its glutinous, worried paint, its muddily incoherent color and its torpid drawing, would hardly pass as a student academy piece; it is recognizable, though only...