An evening given to Anatole Le Braz, his work and his legacy. Xavier Hussön, who illustrated the temporary exhibition shown alongside, sits with the novelist Gérard Lefondeur, who brings the writer back through his investigations. They take in the writer, the collector and the Brittany he described, drawing on archives, contemporary art and the imagination. The Cercle Celtique de Malestroit performs at the close, and admission is free.
Tag: local-history
Visite guidée de la Maison à Pondalez, Morlaix
The Maison à Pondalez is a timber-framed house of the early sixteenth century, a piece of Morlaix civil architecture. Its plan is the style « à lanterne »: one tall central space open through several floors, a monumental wooden vis staircase, and the suspended walkways, the pondalez, linking the storeys. A guide of the Musée de Morlaix leads the visit through rooms holding its flax collections. The house is classée Monument Historique.
Luigi Odorici, fondateur du musée de Dinan
The Bibliothèque municipale de Dinan gives a long run to Luigi Odorici, an Italian political refugee who settled in the town. He became its librarian, then founded the museum and kept it for close to forty years. The display gathers pieces that passed through his hands: the Portulan de Pascoal Roiz, a portrait of saint Dominique, and the first book printed in Dinan. His bequest still forms the core of the museum’s holdings, and access is free.
Les Croc’Archi: the Carnac yacht-club base
Les Croc’Archi is the short-visit format of the Pays d’art et d’histoire Auray Quiberon Terre Atlantique, and it stops here at the Carnac yacht-club’s nautical base. A guide-conferencier of its Culture and Heritage service sets out why it counts: it came with the sports architecture that followed the spread of leisure. The agence Yves Guillou built it, and its sixtieth year is the occasion. The group forms at the little train’s departure point.
Science at the Manufacture des tabacs, Morlaix
The Espace des sciences occupies the Manufacture des tabacs in Morlaix, and over the Toussaint break it opens its nine exhibition rooms to all ages. Foucault’s pendulum shows the Earth turning and Globe 360 takes the planet apart. Coup de foudre à la Manu makes static electricity visible. The guided Au plus près des Moulins goes into the Manufacture’s own mills, still working, past a machine classed as a Historic Monument.
Saint-Cast s’éveille: dawn over the baie de l’Arguenon
This is one of the Minutes Bleues outings, the week when heritage sites of the Côtes d’Armor open in the blue light of dawn. The walk leaves the Grande Plage de Saint-Cast-le-Guildo in the dark and follows the GR34 coast path to the Pointe de la Garde. The arrival is timed for the sun coming up over the baie de l’Arguenon at high tide, with a guide reading the shoreline. The return drops through one of the oldest quarters of the town.
Le mystère du Haras, Haras national de Lamballe
The Haras national de Lamballe lets teams behind the scenes to work out what became of an archive that has gone missing. The clues sit among the stud farm’s historic buildings, and progress takes exploration, reasoning and pooling what each team has spotted. Children from eight take part with an adult beside them. The hunt belongs to Les Minutes Bleues, whose programme also opens the Abbaye de Beauport and the Château de La Hunaudaye.
Les îles d’Iroise d’hier à aujourd’hui, au CEMO
The Centre d’Étude du Milieu d’Ouessant gives over its Ar Gouzou hall to two displays on the heritage and history of the island. One carries the title « The Iroise Islands: Past and Present », the other « The Islands of Ouessant ». Photographs sit beside documents and personal accounts. They record the life and the landscapes of the archipelago over time, assembled by the centre that studies the Iroise milieu.
Une épopée urbaine : Redon en photographies
Redon’s urban fabric has been forming since the Middle Ages, and the second half of the twentieth century reshaped the town and the way its people lived in it. The photographs put that change on view and ask what inhabiting the town means now. The City of Redon mounts the exhibition with the Groupement culturel breton des Pays de Vilaine and the APPHR. It belongs to La Bogue d’Or, the autumn season Redon gives to Breton tale and music.
Visite flash: the Bretons and the stone giants
A short mediated sequence at the Musée de Préhistoire de Carnac, turning from the stones themselves to what the Bretons made of them. Between reality and imagination, the mediator shows how the megaliths have inspired artists and advertisers. The museum holds one of the richest prehistoric collections in Europe, with 3000 objects from excavations at Carnac and nearby. The alignments themselves run for 4 kilometres. No booking is needed.