Southern Brittany : Sea, Land And Time

The sea has hewn the coastline like strips of lace. The land is a true kaleidoscope of changing countryside. Time has turned the peninsula of Brittany into a region of incredible cultural wealth. From the Bigouden region to the gulf of Morbihan, from La Baule to Belle Ile, from Nantes to Quimper, Pierre Brouwers invites you to cross one of France’s most distinctive and clearly identified regions.
Main themes:
La Baule • Polo • Salt flats of Guérande • Le Pouliguen • Fest-noz • The Bigoudènes • Breton dances • Pancakes • The Gulf of Morbihan • Vannes • Île d'Arz • Île aux Moines • Carnac • Quiberon • Belle-Île • Lorient • Cité de la voile • Île de Groix • Abalone shellfish farming • Hennebont and the Médiévales • Oyster farming • Bélon • Pont-Aven • Pont-l'Abbé and the Fête des Brodeuses • Le Guilvinec • Quimper • Lighthouses • Pointe de la Torche • Pointe du Raz • Brittany from the sky • Nantes • The Loire • Clisson • Saint-Nazaire • Wine-growing • Etc. -
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[@KernowekTim]

I am a very proud 63 years old Cornishman, from the Falmouth/Penryn are. We proper Cornish love and cherish our strong blood-ties and cultures, that are parts of the Breton/Cornish Alliance. The Breton, is our cousin. We will fight a person who speaks wrong of a the Bretons. We have, ' Deep History'. Long live Britanny and the Breton race of Celtic people.

[@mikeymasters8459]

I’m an American who’s ancestors came from Breton in the 17th century. I found this program both informative and entertaining.

[@frogbard]

Same here. Cool!

[@Alasdair37448]

Have you ever thought about learning your ancestral language? The Breton language is one of the most endangered Celtic languages and needs all the help it can get.

[@paulinemahrezait769]

Kenavo 😊

[@skyzoDBois]

ça veut dire aurevoir ..@@paulinemahrezait769

[@wolfone2979]

Yaaaarmat

[@LordJasonKing]

Greeting from Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@hironox8090]

Greetings from Bretagne we're celtic friends !

[@brudenify]

I'm britton, i live in this place since i was born and i like the way that People from abroad talk about brittany, with such respect for her culture and history unlike few People in France who deals with britton's identity as a tiny part of france, as if this place just exist because of french's history. Brittany contibute to the wealth of france and get the same importance as irland in this world

[@hazelhatswell4268]

My home for the past 18 years ❤️

[@hazelhatswell4268]

@Ezra Shiloh ???????

[@hazelhatswell4268]

@Barrett Zaid ?????

[@bobapbob5812]

My father was wounded twice outside Plouzane in Britanny. I have always wanted to visit,

[@eurovisionarmenia1914]

Pov: You're here after Eurovision 2022 to discover more about Brittany. Thanks Alvan & Ahez for this opportunity😍

[@impalaman9707]

Brittany has an exotic beauty all its own. I can't really compare it to anywhere else in the world. Its a different universe. It would inspire a poem or a song

[@rojonigondharrajjo5397]

I wish to go to france someday . Brittany is so beautiful ....

[@gamermapper]

Brittany is a very cool place. It's a part of France but also culturally a separate nation.

[@ermining1]

@@gamermapper no we're not french. The French banned our language and culture and still now do every thing to try and destroy Breton and Gallo culture. the French are offensive towards bretons, and think of us as an uncultured people.

[@francinesicard464]

The land of my ancestors. All Pierre Brouwers' documentaries are very good.

[@0innerself0]

Noticed a few approximations. I mean like "pancakes" ? PANCAKES ??? Godammit, it's crêpes. PS : I'm from Lorient

[@thomaselliott573]

A wonderful and very well produced documentary. I lived here for a short time and I loved it very much. It is unique and the people are true to their nature and heart. Merci beaucoup.

[@zakkh6354]

I am a Breton from Loire Atlantique (44), the Vichy regime has administratively separate my department from Brittany for economic reasons. This is unfair because my department is of Breton Culture and is part of Brittany.

[@argroazvrezhon7656]

Lavaret eo bet mat aotrou (pe itron n'ouzon ket) ! Breizh adunvanet ! Bien parlé monsieur (ou madame je ne sais pas) ! Bretagne réunifiée !

[@adrien5116]

Je trouve la division administrative totalement justifiée. Je les trouve même assez bénéfiques à la Bretagne vu que Rennes ramasse les retombées économiques de la Bretagne administrative et Nantes ramasse les retombées des Pays de la Loire. Je serais en désaccord avec vous si il n'y avait pas tout une flopée de personnes assez débiles pour mettre un débat là où il n'y en a pas. Les pays de Nantes et de Retz sont bretons. Je ne sais pas à combien il faut ne pas s'intéresser à l'Histoire, à la culture ou juste même aux personnes pour penser qu'une identité ligérienne existe.

[@philippelouer6979]

@@adrien5116 se n'est que votre point de vue et rien.de plus

[@adrien5116]

@@philippelouer6979 Si vous ne pensez pas que Nantes est bretonne ce n'est pas mon problème. Relayer l'identité d'un peuple à un point de vue est typique du genre d'usurpateur que vous laissez imaginer être.

[@kervilou5905]

illuminé !

[@borderreiver3288]

WHAT A BEAUTIFUL AREA..NEVER KNEW THERE WERE SO MANY ISLANDS....

[@fabricehaubois2442]

Awesome documentary, thank you, well done !

[@MK-ni5kb]

Breizh da viken ! Thx for this good documentary :)

[@KernowekTim]

Kernow Bys Vyken! Thank you my cousin! "Chons da!"

[@LilacGlo]

Beautiful scenery and architecture ❤️🥰

[@conlaiarla]

This music could be Irish .. so many common cultural aspects with us.

[@jacqueline23788]

celtic culture (ireland wales scotland england france britany and many more

[@g-man4744]

I'm from Brittany and live in Ireland, I definitely could not mistake the music of one place for the other...they are quite different on every level, composition, singing style, instrumentation, etc...

[@theemptyatom]

Outstanding. Great people!

[@exploreearth6275]

Such wonderful documentary

[@seanconnery1277]

Very good,best and superb documentary.Thank you.

[@gitagunawa5181]

Nice country to visit

[@thomaselliott573]

I am glad people do not know what they are missing. It will preserve this area from madness. However I am not sure why he did not include Concarneau in this. It is a highlight of the history here.

[@killmelemmy2170]

Thomas Elliott « it will preserve this area from madness ». We have German, English and Dutch tourists, scarlet tanned and wearing sandals WITH socks. Madness already reached us.... 😂

[@willisattva]

@@killmelemmy2170 les kebabs ont remplacer beaucoup de crêperie et les villes se remplisse d hlm avec de moins en moins de bretons d origine mais de français d origine sub saharienne qui sont fier de leur culture a eux ( ce que l on peux comprendre ) mais pas spécialement intéresser par la culture bretonne et celte. Des zup enormes de brest a st brieuc en passant par vannes ,rennes ou qimper... et maintenant la moindre ville de 5000habitants a ses tour hlm qui se remplisse a vue d'oeil avec la caf a côté et un snack pizzeria ou kebab qui remplace le café et la crêperie d avant. La culture bretonne ne seta plus qun lointain folklore préserver par quelques resistants.

[@killmelemmy2170]

alpha beat alphabeat Ce que tu dis sur les hlm est tout à fait vrai. Mais je pense pas que ce phénomène reléguera la culture bretonne à un attrape touriste. Parce que je pense que ça change pas grand chose: les bretons attachés à la culture bretonne en Bretagne et ailleurs continueront à la vivre et à la propager, et sont généralement assez attachés à ça pour que ça me rassure. Et le grand nombre de bretons, bien bretons en Bretagne, qui n’en n’ont rien à Carhaix de la culture bretonne ( jeu de mots) continueront à s’en foutre. Moi je vois la culture bretonne largement assez encrée pour subsister et même gagner en importance. Alors à Rennes je dis pas. Et encore. Mais sur des villes comme Brest, Quimper, Lorient ou Vannes je me fais vraiment pas de soucis. Et pour les plus petites villes encore moins. Si il y’a un vrai danger pour la culture bretonne c’est le désintérêt massif des jeunes, rien d’autre. Mais ils restent quand même fiers de leurs origines, et peut-être qu’en vieillissant il se tourneront à nouveau vers les différents aspects de cette culture. C’est ce qu’il faut espérer. Et laisser la culture bretonne évoluer, sans la dénaturer ou la couper de son histoire évidemment. Mais si on la cantonne au folklore des arrières grands parents, faudra pas s’étonner qu’elle disparaisse un jour.

[@brittanymwancientlight]

Beautiful

[@granskare]

a fine doc, thanks (merci) :)

[@elenashargo]

What a beautiful documentary! I wish there were time codes to look up the places mentioned.

[@granskare]

on the Great Lakes between the USA & Canada we also have shipwrecks. Both sides had lifesavers, but now few of the ore boats are not there. Just small fishing vessels but time marches on

[@MrReup31]

22:34 rectification: the stones of Carnac have been erected between fifth and third millennium BC -> 7000 years ago

[@irishelk3]

They say its remote but its not that remote. Theres lots of money in Brittany and i stayed in Dinan and i found it quite an expensive place actually. Lots of money in St Malo, Dinard, St Brieuc, Carnac, Renne, Vannes, Brest.

[@Burgalo2001]

I've heard that people from that place are very kind, sweet and generous which is opposite to other parts of France

[@elisa3706]

Laency2988 Laency2988 not really

[@Burgalo2001]

@@elisa3706 why? They are the same as parisians? Don't believe in that. Who could be worse than people from other France?

[@lenamorverand5626]

​@@Burgalo2001 I live there and yes people are most of the time pretty kind, personnaly i'm 19 and i don't have my license so i only travel by doing stop and Brittany is the region where i feel the more safe! (sorry for my fault... i'm french)

[@Burgalo2001]

@@lenamorverand5626, I'm doing course work about Bretagne...I really love that place and one of my goals is to study there and learn everything about Bretagne. I was kidn of upset when first comment was something like "not really". I met Parisians and they were horrible as people. Let's hope that bretons are not like them😊

[@anemon1900]

Nah they are verry cold people in my oppinion, part of my family is from there so i know how it is. Contrary to them i lived outside of that region so i can notice the different mentaly that they have.

[@melissamartin9237]

This is good but would much more useful if the place names appeared on screen.

[@Alasdair37448]

I adore Breton music :D

[@GavTatu]

i'm from jersey, so only a short ferry trip for me... its a beautiful place.

[@skyzoDBois]

Hi from Lorient - island of Groix ! :)

[@nadiabernard1146]

😊❤🎉😅 bonjour de la part d'une bretonne de Quimper, Cornouaille Bretagne, France

[@Rio-by1eh]

Now I want to read more about history,,,def...

[@cen80]

They dance halay:)))My husband has 2% Scotish and Irish blood,he is from central Anatolia.

[@kiffsadlig9128]

Central anatolia was a settlement of the gauls, a celtic people from France. The name of this place was galatia and the capital was Ancyr, now Ankara.

[@RAJESHKUMAR-wu5rn]

TIME , GIVE ME CHANCE ONE DAY I WILL BE THERE ,🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿

[@josefalc29]

RAJESH KUMAR yes come here ^^

[@bartcolen]

Hope you can make it there, Rajesh. It's even more magical than it looks!!! (And the people are superb, too.)

[@killmelemmy2170]

RAJESH KUMAR We’ll be happy to welcome you here

[@Boyd2342]

@@killmelemmy2170 Wow, you're all so welcoming!

[@kurtleblanc8749]

It's charming and beautiful precisely because people like you ARE NOT there. It's amazing-- Indians and the rest wanted their independence, got it, now they not only want to follow Whitey to his native lands but many want to be in charge! "Get back, get back to where you once belonged.."

[@granskare]

I have a friend who lives here - I recognize that flag :)

[@SaraAndFriends499]

🏴󠁦󠁲󠁢󠁲󠁥󠁿

[@ekrgable]

It's like Asturias, but sunnier. 17:55

[@vincentt2309]

It’s only half of Brittany. Now let’s do North Finistère, Côtes d’Armor and Ille et vilaine.

[@orkhanmikayil8147]

i lik

[@lemeejean1231]

Put subtitles in Breton language (Brezhoneg) too. Brittany,= one of the last colonised countries by Paris.

[@baraka8239]

It's good (refreshing) to hear my name pronounced properly. Americans call me Britney and think I'm being pompous if try to correct them.

[@oliviodubois2371]

brittany beckford ta gueule

[@oliviodubois2371]

brittany beckford stupide américain

[@oliviodubois2371]

brittany beckford MDRRRRR ferme ta gueule 😂😂

[@oliviodubois2371]

brittany beckford je ne parle pas anglais, grosse américaine

[@baraka8239]

Olivio Dubois obviously you do or you wouldn't understand my comment enough to reply.

[@williamgill_esq.6487]

14:57 -->> Ernest Borgnine!!!!

[@jme104]

At 33:06, Erwan Tonnerre , Erwan Thunder ...

[@skyzoDBois]

it's a friend of my sister (i'm from Groix island ^^)

[@yechedmad1243]

The subtile in french is possible ?

[@korokosso]

What's the intro song please???

[@Mach17163]

I love Brittany I’m in it right now but very strange

[@matejsteinhauser3974]

I believe that Unreal 1 Was inspired by this place and Adding the Hawaiian mountains all over their Na Pali Land of the Planet. Bretons are Peacefull people, and This is Land of Peace and Paradise. Nali Simply have an characteristics of Bretons, fightless people who want to dance, Do druidry rituals, Enjoy their Ancient Utopia and Have an Beautiful Ceremonies. Real life Brittany is No where near to Asterix and Obelix world, In fact, Planet That I would call Asterria is inside an Czech Republic. Czech Republic is second most arrogant Land right after the Scandivania, Where history is Competely Ruined by those Fake Buildings in Prague, Old Buildings getting torn down, Everything getting Urbanized, and having American Characteristics. Rooms inside the Houses looks like Something out of Argard, Like they are Movie set for Alien Invasion Sci-Fi Horror Movie and Set about someone infiltrating the Alien Rooms inside an UFO. Forests are Also poor and Now they are also almost gone. No Real Nature is found in czech republic, No natural Woods Ecosystem, Everything is Ruined by Humanity in there, Only few places remain natural, Šumava for example. Or Small Part of Iron Mountains near Choteboř. But Iron Mountains has also the Asterix and Obelix Village up the North, and I am not real fan of Some Planet that is Dystopian Version of Planet Na Pali where Weaklings can get mobilized without their agreement, and Some People are real fans of these Celtic Gaulish Politics that are replica of our politic system and this might be scary for someone who is Gen Z. I am Fan on Unreal 1 And I would want this Nali Style peaceful Breton's society being real even in my own land

[@ElisandeWalters]

it was a quite lovely piece but truthfully "every detail" of the medieval festival was almost entirely WRONG, sigh.. but it looks like it will be great fun

[@allon33]

The middle east vibe is here, yet not in the UK.

[@teloneys2845]

???

[@impalaman9707]

I see what you mean. Their music is Celtic, but it almost has a Middle Eastern tinge to it. Not sure why? Their choice of piped instruments, I suppose?

[@axelespinoza29]

Influenca Celta Et Latino Romance HAHA

[@targard.quantumfrack6854]

ker means a hamlet

[@brittalbach416]

sounds like the Scottish pipe

[@KillBones]

Mostly because like Scotland, they have Celtics origins

[@skyzoDBois]

In truth the bagpipe is an instrument that comes from the Middle Ages and it was found in different forms all over Europe, only the Celtic countries kept it afterwards

[@brittalbach416]

@@skyzoDBois aha. thank you for the information, I love these sounds

[@jme104]

It's not "Petit Loup" (little wolf) it's petit LU .

[@0innerself0]

Faut être tolérant, les anglophones ont du mal avec le "U" de chez nous.

[@franckdebzh7608]

Le commentaire casse-coui***... C'est dur pour un anglophone de prononcer les "U". Et puis pas sûr qu'a contrario votre Anglais soit parfaitement irréprochable.

[@jme104]

@@franckdebzh7608 Rien à f ... je ne prétend pas être irréprochable en anglais, mais je fais des efforts . Je croyais que vous trouveriez drôle le "petit loup" , mais l'humour anglais se perd , sans doute trop de temps passé en France .

[@jme104]

@@franckdebzh7608 Tous ces Béni-oui-oui ( yes men ) grâce auxquels les tyrans prospèrent .

[@cmolodiets]

Brittany. enjoy it while you can. When the sea level rises, there'll be nothing left of it

[@willmoore7582]

My location is Lanrivain (22480 post code) and stands 224m above sea level. How high is ASL expected to rise above its' current level and in what time scale? Regards.

[@josefalc29]

No, we got pretty high cliffs

[@gideonros2705]

😂😂😂

[@vincentt2309]

Lol, it’s not Netherlands.

[@ericklamotte617]

Bretagne is not part of France, it is next to it. Breizh Ma Bro.

[@weaselbzh7542]

britanny is not France britanny is Britanny un pays colonisé comme la corse l'Alsace l'occitanie les basques...

[@bzh4208]

Breizh Dieub

[@maximejaffre4714]

C'est toi l'ignare pauvre idiot ! La Bretagne est un pays annexé par la France et tous les bretons le savent depuis belle lurette ! Je t'invite, pour commencer, à écouter Louis Melennec qui a donné une interview au journal La Pravda en 2016 : il est docteur en droit français, en histoire, en médecine et de plus il a travailler pour le gouvernement français ! Je ne sais pas quel est ton âge mais c'est de ma part que tu risques d'avoir une tarte et une belle en plus car la France ferait mieux de se torcher les fesses en disant que la Crimée a été annexée car elle a fait de même avec la Bretagne depuis plus de 500 ans ! Le droit international peut le prouver sombre crétin ! Et va apprendre à écrire aussi car à ton âge on devrait maîtriser le français, le connaître sur le bout des ongles ! Voici le lien pour que tu puisses enrichir ton cerveau sur la véritable histoire de la Bretagne car il n'y a pas d'âge pour s'instruire : kzbin.info/www/bejne/f4fZgIuAjtWgaac

[@maximejaffre4714]

Tu es vraiment l'être le plus immature que je connaisse : tout dans la provocation, les insultes. Je reconnais que je ne savais pas si j'allais faire une touche en relayant tes propres insultes à une personne qui ne faisait que donner son avis sur un documentaire très bien réalisé. Tu prouves que tu ne sais pas non seulement garder ton sang froid mais en plus tu prouves que tu ne sais agir et réagir que par la violence : tu ne vis que pour t'en prendre aux autres, les insulter. Tu te crois tout puissant en agissant de la sorte parce que en réalité tu es IMPUISSANT mentalement face aux personnes qui connaissent plus que toi sur l'Histoire de la Bretagne. D'ailleurs ton nom n'est pas du tout breton alors que le mien si. Je se sais pas si tu es né en Bretagne mais il ne suffit pas d'y naître pour se déclarer breton. Moi je le suis de pure souche ! Et visiblement tu n'as pas écouter ATTENTIVEMENT l'interview. Mais je ne suis pas étonné étant donné que tu es très étroit d'esprit, que tu ne veux que rabaisser les gens à ton propre niveau de violence.

[@maximejaffre4714]

Ah mais je savais bien que j'allais te débusquer petit furet ! Ta manière d'écrire te trahi et on peut te pister (le furet sans très mauvais) ! ! ! Mais ne compte pas sur moi pour cliquer car je suis plus malin que toi. Les hackers de bas étages ne m'impressionnent pas du tout et c'est pourquoi tu reste là à me dire des stupidités : dans l'espoir que je clique sur un de tes liens mais vois-tu j'ai un copain qui est un véritable hacker et il va te dépister au plus vite pauvre idiot ! Tu dis que je t'ai insulté dès le début ? J'ai juste retourné le couteau contre toi et maintenant tu vois l'effet que ça fait !

[@maximejaffre4714]

Est-ce que j'ai mis le doigt où ça fait mal ? Tu parles de jeux vidéo : nouvelle erreur de ta part ! Mais continue comme ça, je te cible de plus en plus. Je n'ai JAMAIS retiré un post ici te concernant alors soit tu es totalement fou, sois tu veux te faire passer pour un fou si tu te fais arrêter. Je vais peut être faire appel à la police pour te tracer, ce sera mieux. Traitement psychiatrique en prime : une camisole chimique ça te dit ?

[@TM-em9ij]

ugh the music :/

[@kurtleblanc8749]

Good point. Why can't they play rap music instead by Crack Daddy abd the Party Crew? I mean come on, how are you supposed to shake it with no African tribal music with plates in lips?

[@cmolodiets]

oh yes. Nantes, the city that built its prosperity on slavery

[@renesagahon4477]

I’ve been there. Beautiful part of France people so friendly. And me being from calif wearing surfer shorts 🩳 who didn’t better. I always tried to speak my high school french This area birthplace to the superb liner Normandie