03137cam a22003613u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003701000130007804000110009104100170010205000070011910000360012624500430016226400510020530000470025633600260030333700260032933800360035550000310039150801740042252017990059653400450239565300480244065300700248865300410255865300510259985600630265085600430271399900190275677936UtSlPG20260610134815.0mcr n260607r20261927utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  a27024651  aUtSlPG 7afr2iso639-1 4aDC1 aMénez, François,d1887-194510aAux jardins enchantés de Cornouaille 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2026  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2026-02-14  aLaurent Vogel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)  a"Aux jardins enchantés de Cornouaille" by François Ménez is a regionalist travelogue and cultural essay collection written in the early 20th century. It offers a lyrical, corrective portrait of Brittany’s Cornouaille, blending landscape writing, local history, customs, costumes, and social character, with a special attention to its towns and seaboard. The likely focus is the spirit, color, and vitality of the region’s varied “pays,” culminating in a nuanced evocation of Quimper as its gentle, pleasure-loving capital.

The opening of the work overturns the stereotype of a bleak, mournful Brittany by countering famous gloomy depictions with a bright, sensuous panorama of Cornouaille’s evolving prosperity, lively ports, and exuberant people. It tours the region’s micro-lands—the Daoulas and Aulne valleys, the glazik country, Bigouden, Cap-Sizun, the softer pays duik, and the stern Poher—linking each to distinctive costumes, temperaments, and landscapes. The narrative then centers on Quimper: its strategic riverside setting, ancient roots, medieval defenses, and role as a meeting point of diverse Cornouaille populations. Ménez lingers along the Odet’s manors and gardens (such as Lanniron), weaving legend, anecdote, and travel-sketch. He sketches eighteenth-century society—elegant yet cash-poor nobles, a lively salon world (captured through an epistolary hostess), worldly clergy and curious canons, and a rising bourgeoisie fueled by textiles, faience, and trade—alongside the city’s popular pleasures of feasting, gaming, theater, and promenades. The section closes by portraying the modern Quimpérois as moderate, sociable, and fond of measured joys, with a religion more habitual than fervent. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cParis: Plon, 1927  aBrittany (France) -- Description and travel  aMénez, François, 1887-1945 -- Travel -- France -- Cornouaille  aCornouaille (France) -- Civilization  aCornouaille (France) -- Description and travel4 uhttps://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uga1.3210801257946540uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77936  c118656d118656