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[@ogmaharpocrates2742]

Tell a Normand that Mont St Michel is in Brittany and we'll see how fast you can run! 😂

[@cynthiagauthier8897]

Or that this is a castle ! :p

[@legiofelix8105]

Je suis breton, les normands veulent nous le voler mais nous connaissons tous la vérité 😂. Ce n'est pas un château c'est une abbaye.

[@cynthiagauthier8897]

@@legiofelix8105 bah oui ! C'est bien ce que l'on écrit. ^^ Je suis à moitié bretonne seulement pour ma part, mais j'habite à Rennes. ;)

[@ForaNakit]

That purple flower that you can see in the abundance is heather. It's spread all over Europe. Scotland is also famous for its moors ( heather fields )

[@hasturx1]

There is also alot to see in the inner Brittany but this video seems to focus only on the coast. Btw, rampart can be also traduce as a bulwark and those cross you see are calvary.

[@reynaldparisel3852]

Yes ! the Mont Saint-Michel is located in Normandie, but the Bretons would like to "annex" this monument. The Normands will never accept !!! ^^

[@philipperodeau7716]

Les bretons utilisent le mont pour attirer les touristes mais laissent les normands financer son entretien ! 😂😂

[@youtpfpm6097]

Comme si tu savais ce que veulent les bretons. Je suis breton et je me fiche du Mont St Michel comme de mon premier slip. 😂 Du calme avec vos guéguerres.

[@legiofelix8105]

Le couesnon nous a trahis, mais nous sommes généreux en Bretagne on veut bien le prêté au normand, faut bien qu'ils existent un peu.

[@legiofelix8105]

D'ailleurs ceux qui disent que le mont est en Normandie sont les mêmes qui disent chocolatine.😂

[@micade2518]

Mont Saint Michel is not topped by a castle but by a monastery.

[@kerouac2]

Mont Saint Michel is a bone of contention between Brittany and Normandy because it used to be in Brittany. There is a small river that has its mouth there, and it divides the two provinces. Over the centuries, sometimes the river went to the left and sometimes it went to the right. In modern times, they can't let the river do that anymore, so the people of Brittany feel that Mont Saint Michel was stolen from them.

[@redgruntlefurieux]

Nice video for someone living in Brittany. Ramparts are fortified walls surrounding a city or a castle. These carved stone crosses are called calvaries or "calvaires" in French. They are typically located next to religious buildings, along pilgrimage routes, or in various places throughout the countryside. While some are very simple, many are intricately detailed, featuring sculptures of Christ, the Virgin Mary, scenes from the Gospels, or saints who are particularly important in Breton Catholic tradition. Some calvaries are quite large, with dozens of statues, and historically, some of them were painted in bright colors. For an impressive example, you can look up the 'Calvaire de Plougastel-Daoulas'

[@nf9594]

There's an error in the part of the video about Concarneau. Some scenes show mountains in the background and red clay tile roofs, which are not characteristic of Brittany. These features are more typical of southern France. In Brittany, the landscape is flatter with some rolling hills, and traditional roofs are covered with dark-grey slate tiles. The highest point in Brittany is Roc'h Ruz, which stands at 1,276 feet (389 meters).

[@skypper1969]

For pronunciations : 'Mont' 'Saint' 'croissant' 'champ' etc we don't tell the consonants 't' or the 'p' at the and so we say 'Mon' and 'Sain' 'Croissan' 'cham' without their 't' or 'p'. 😘

[@d.6593]

Kwra-sahn

[@nedludd7622]

It is hopeless to try to correct and teach Americans about pronunciation in other languages. They are not interested. They think that "I am bad at languages" is a good enough excuse.

[@first-dooblette6911]

C'est ce que j'appelle "parler pour ne rien dire"🤔

[@seeyouanon29318]

You know the word Brittany more or less means/translates to "little Britain" as opposed to "Great Britain" ( little and great refer to land mass) and which shares the same etymology. The word Brittany, along with its French Breton and Gallo equivalents Bretagne, Breizh and Bertaèyn, derive from the Latin Britannia, which means "land of the Britons". This word had been used by the Romans since the 1st century to refer to Great Britain, and more specifically the Roman province of Britain. I can't remember off the top of my head at the moment, but there was one war between France and Britain where Brittany refused to fight against Britain because they said they were going to be fighting their own people.

[@caudron5926]

Les Bretons a parfois refusé de se battre, contre les Gallois car ils parlaient la même langue celtique. Contre les Anglais , c'est plus compliqué, car la Bretagne étant indépendante pendant la guerre de cent ans, elle était de gré ou de force alliée avec la France ou l'Angleterre. En plus le système féodal obligeait les seigneurs a être loyaux non pas à leur nation mais au suzerain qui était au dessus d'eux. Quoiqu'il en soit, les Anglais demeurent l'ennemi, car ils ont chassé les Bretons de leur île il y a 1500 ans . L'an prochain à Londinium !!

[@seeyouanon29318]

There is way to much history to write down here , but I'm sure if people were, or are interested enough, they would research it for themselves. But towards the end of the 4th century, the Britons of Domnonée (modern Devon and cornouaill modern Cornwall) on the South-Western peninsula of Great Britain began to emigrate to Armorica, which is why the Breton language is more closely related to recorded Cornish. Additional waves of Brythonic (British Celtic) settlement increased during the Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britain in the 5th and 6th centuries to seek refuge from the Anglo-Saxon invaders. It is from this event that Brittany derives its name "Brittany=little Britain ". Scholars such as Léon Fleuriot have suggested a two-wave model of migration from Britain which saw the emergence of an independent Breton people and established the dominance of the Brythonic Breton language in Armorica. Their petty kingdoms are now known by the names of the counties that succeeded them-Domnonée (Devon), Cornouaille (Cornwall), Léon (Caerleon) etc but these names in Breton and Latin are in most cases identical to their British homelands. Breton is French for Briton. Also fun fact, Paris in france got its name from another celtic clan/tribe from Britain, the "parisii " from Yorkshire. The whole of Britain was made up of celtic clans/tribes and when the Anglo-Saxon did invade not everyone ran to the hills, there was never a so called wipeout of the celts who lived in England (todays terminology) that theory has long been blown out of the water, but many of the celts adopted the ways of the ruling elite (Anglo-Saxon) and because of this, those that were classed as celts in the England regions were no longer considered celtic anymore because of the language etc, yet they were still the same people, and some married with the Anglo-Saxon.

[@alanttea]

"The stone crossed" is called "calvaire" from latin "calvarium" who was a translation of the aramaic "golgotha". The usage to erect crosses along roadsides and at the cities or villages crossroads emerged in the 4th century AD. Before that the roman erected columns and votive monuments. Each "calvaire" had an history, it could be an happy event or on contrary for an accidental death, the plague... And it was a way to show the wealth for the "glory of god", a way to emulate burgs and villages.

[@skypper1969]

The city of Saint Malo was rebuilt after the WWII after being razed by US squatters

[@nedludd7622]

"Squatters"?

[@phillipphil1615]

German squatters. France was not able to remove them alone.

[@jonathanratel3150]

Remparts are the historic city walls. Brittany is so fire!

[@polsteambeluga1827]

Vannes is not a recent city the name of this city come from the Gaulish tribe "Vénètes" held the south of britanny The city has therefore been inhabited since at least the 3rd century BC, but as you can see, just a few kilometers away there is Carnac, the Gavrinis cairn and the Locmariaquer menhir, which make it one of the most important Neolithic sites in the world. This brings us to the birth of the city between 20,000 and 8,000 years BC.

[@redgruntlefurieux]

@hasturx1 is right to point out that inland Brittany is also very beautiful. For example, the Forest of Brocéliande is a prime example of Brittany's enchanting interior. This legendary forest is closely associated with Arthurian legend, particularly the stories of King Arthur and the wizard Merlin. It's said to be the site of many magical events in these tales, adding a layer of mystique to its natural beauty.

[@russcattell955i]

Although cafés & restaurants are frequently mentioned, but not the local cuisine. Of course fresh fish & seafood is abundant. Dairy farming, particularly famous butter. Also coastal farmers fertilise the fields with seaweed, vegetables are high quality & abundant. Pink onions of Roscoff are a gourmet favourite. Breton Galettes are a must have too.

[@almanoor-bakker5964]

You are right about the purple heather also growing on the Veluwe, it is in abundance there.

[@nox8730]

Number 6, Couimepeur.... Quimper. Woa. If i didn't see it written, i would have had no clue what he was talking about. It is true that when it comes to learning languages, pronunciation is almost everything.

[@alexrock4248]

Mount St Michel is in Normandy not Brittany 😶 and it's not a castle but a monastery

[@jgingras2615]

About French ancestry : a lot of French colonists to New France (Canada/Québec) sailed from the port of Saint-Malo showed at the beginning of the video and from La Rochelle (Charente-Maritime). My own family ancestor sailed from La Rochelle and landed in the Québec City area back in the 17th century.

[@GuyWets-zy5yt]

"Remparts" are very strong tall and thick walls around a castle or a city ,to protect them against invaders. "Medieval" is middle age begins +- 5th century to +- 15th century.Greetings from Belgium🍀🍀🍀

[@nedludd7622]

How can you not know the meaning of the "ramparts"? It is only in the US national anthem--"O'er the ramparts we watch'd"--there is also a relatively recent movie "Rampart".

[@GuyWets-zy5yt]

I m belgian but I know Mont Saint Michel is in Normandy, not Brittany. Greetings from Belgium🍀🍀🍀

[@beowulfaegirsson4362]

There is no time period called the "Dark Age" in France or Brittany. You have Paleolithic, Neolithic (megaliths' Atlantic Culture from Portugal to Denmark), Bronze Age, Iron Age (Halstatt period with the Celts). The true name of Brittany is Armorique or Ar Mor meanings country of the sea, it took its Britton name when refugees from romanized Great Britain flew the Angles and Saxons invasion in the South of the island. Lancelot is born in Brittany, Merlin visited Viviane in the Brocéliande forest. These people were the romanized Briitons, but before that Julius Cesar came to conquer Armorique and built a fleet to defeat the Vénetes people from Vannes. The Carnac megaliths are probably not graves, but a monumental calendar for harvests, collectiv tumbs were located in dolmens in that time. There are plenty of things to visit and eat, it is still a wild area because of the sea winds but it has been colonized right after the end of the last glaciar era so you might not fear too many mosquitos... As you understood the ancient buildings are overlapped by other more recent constructions : Mount Saint Michel was populated by Gaulles, probably an ancient fortress in wood that has turned into a monumental religious site. Below each cathedral of France you probably have a more ancient temple from the Gaulles' time or even before from the Bronze Age. Watch the song about the tribe of Dana by Manau, you might like it ;)

[@HashiBzh]

29:30 : The stone cross is called "calvaire" in French. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvary_(monument)

[@aceathor]

Translated explanation: "You will come across many monumental crosses on our paths, at street crossroads. These are made of stone, sculpted and represent the scene of the crucifixion of Christ. These crosses and calvaries are constructions erected in the Middle Ages by the Church, which wanted to protect travelers or people pursued by an enemy. Anyone who found refuge near a cross was just as well protected as if they found asylum in a church. This Catholic religious symbol has also been widespread since the 16th century. It may have been intended to be a place of pilgrimage or simply be a construction built by wealthy families who wanted to affirm their faith and protect their loved ones."

[@didierlemoine6771]

so different from where i live in the south coast of France, it is like another country :)

[@jonathanratel3150]

It's the marvel with France, you can drive 50 km and encounter a totally different landscape and climate.

[@VeroniqueLEFEVRE]

Attention le Mont Saint Michel n'est pas en Bretagne mais en Normandie.

[@ericarigg118]

A shame the narrator didn't research pronunciation. Concarneau is a very large town. The ville clos is just a small part. Also unless I'm mistaken Rennes is the capital of Brittany, no where near the coast. I'm English, but live in rural Brittany, we are about an hours drive to the coast, north, west or south. It's a wonderful life. There are some fabulous surfing beaches.

[@cathyblonvil8997]

bonjour merci pour votre réaction .

[@paulozavala3232]

If you want to see ancient buildings then you have to travel to Italy, Greece, Turkey etc!

[@simonbaumhard1400]

Na Gwenn Na Rozh ! Breizh Atao !

[@lorrefl7072]

It would have been great if the maker of this video had at least looked up how you pronounce the landmarks and towns. Especially his pronounciation of Quimper made me cringe. I'm from Belgium and Bretagne (or Brittany how it called in English) is my favorite region in France. It's not only the beautiful coastline and architecture but also the food that I love. Too bad chronic illness is preventing me from traveling and I'll probably never see it again.

[@first-dooblette6911]

🤔the ramparts are the fortifications that surround the city😉

[@sandrinecozic7214]

Chez moi 😊

[@legiofelix8105]

Très fière de voir ma région découverte par des populations lointaine, la France ce n'est pas que Paris et la Côte d'Azur, ces plus beaux paysages sont très peu connus. Merci

[@ThessaJean]

Bretagne,In French Brittany the legend of King Arthur with Anne of Brittany. Vercingétorix

[@TheMael28]

Vercingétorix est de la tribu des Avernes, autrement dit d'Auvergne.

[@ThessaJean]

@@TheMael28 Exactly, it's the Avernes, it's the Aquitaine face, it's the current Auvergne 82 J-C he stood up to a revolt against the Roman forces. I love this guy, that's why I put him with Guillaume and Montfort. 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

[@melaniezette886]

You have seen a lot of "calvaires". It reminds catholics killed during french revolution. My grand parents had one in a field, à cultual place.

[@vonsauerkraut]

The blue plants are heather

[@alisonleatherbarrow]

Hé missed Benodet

[@melaniezette886]

Réal britany specialty is café