Word: chateaulin
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...group were separatists. Hopelessly in the minority, the separatists are remnants of a band which started agitation for independence during the sixteenth century when Brittany was formally annexed to France by François I. They were meeting at Chateaulin to conduct the annual Congress for Autonomous Brittany...
Last week, with frown and earnest speech, a group of Bretons foregathered in Chateaulin,* Brittany. Their purpose, characteristic, was serious. But Paris giggled...
...French Government cared not for the Congress. Accordingly, the Bretons discovered that all the Chateaulin hotels had been occupied by gendarmes. Bedless, therefore, the autonomists slept on lawns, and the cool night air of Brittany did the rest...
...Chateaulin has no chateau...
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