Word: gascon
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Dates: during 1892-1892
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Renan was of mixed Celtic and Gascon blood, and inherited the traits of both. From the Celtic or Breton side he had his deeply imaginative and conservative qualities and from the Gascons his light and vivacious nature. He received his early education in a Breton Roman Catholic seminary, where thought was simple and religion sincere. From there he went to Paris, where he found everything more gorgeous and splendid and less real and earnest. To complete his education he went to another seminary, where he first learned that he was not a Christian in the real sense of the word...