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100 1 _aMénez, François,
_d1887-1945
245 1 0 _aAux jardins enchantés de Cornouaille
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2026-02-14
508 _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.)
520 _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.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cParis: Plon, 1927
653 _aBrittany (France) -- Description and travel
653 _aMénez, François, 1887-1945 -- Travel -- France -- Cornouaille
653 _aCornouaille (France) -- Civilization
653 _aCornouaille (France) -- Description and travel
856 4 _uhttps://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uga1.32108012579465
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77936
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