Word: quimper
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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...
...among whom M. le Braz grew up. At ten years of age he was sent to school at Saint-Brieuc, and progressed with commendable swiftness to a degree at the Sorbonne. After seven years of university work in Paris, he returned to Brittany, to an old manor house at Quimper, where he often welcomed the local peasantry and fishermen, warming their hearts by his love of the things they loved and listening by the hour to their tales. For 14 years he taught in the Lycée at Quimper and gradually he translated the old songs of Brittany into...