Word: quimper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Occupied France, especially Brittany, Catholics are taking a strong stand against the conquerors. The Bishop of Quimper's sermons have denounced the Nazis steadily since the fall of France. In former Alsace-Lorraine, the Bishop of Strasbourg and Bishop of Metz have been forcibly retired for noncollaboration. In Unoccupied France, the hierarchy has solved the thorny problem of getting along with Vichy and at the same time preventing Petain from using Catholic groups as the social prop for his regime by keeping out of politics. Said the Bishop of Montauban: "We can naturally not collaborate when this involves...
Hardest hit city was Brittany's Quimper, favorite butt of French wits because of its extreme provincialism, centre since 1690 of kilns and workers supplying France with common porcelain ware, the thick soup plate, the humble pot de chambre...