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  • Is There an Authentic Breton Matriarchy?

    Sociologist and essayist Anne Guillou examines why the language of matriarchy has become a distinctive feature of discussion about Breton society. Drawing on her research into women, land, money and rural social relations, she asks when the idea emerged and who helped popularise it. The conference separates a powerful regional narrative from demonstrable historical structures, opening a careful debate about gender and authority in Brittany.

  • Jeanne Malivel Craft Conference

    This conference places Jeanne Malivel at the centre of the Breton applied arts revival. Historian Olivier Levasseur examines her projects and the role of artisans and industrial partners, often from the Côtes-d’Armor, in renewing regional forms. Malivel’s work connects modern design and craft production with the search for a distinctly Breton visual language.

  • Prades Book Fair

    16th Book Fair in Prades, organized by Le Rocher d’écriture with author meetings & signings under the big top (40 authors, equity between writers), conference on patois, Viole de Gambe concert & photo and painting exhibition.

  • Hospital Heritage Protection at the Hospices de Beaune

    Jérôme Combeau, Head of Security, and Bruno François, Head of Collections, take visitors behind the scenes of the Hôtel-Dieu. Their visit-meeting explains how the Hospices Civils de Beaune protect the historic monument and its collections. Discussion with the two specialists explores their professional practices and the cultural-property safeguarding plan.

  • Maritime History in Concarneau: Jean-Paul Mathelier

    Jean-Paul Mathelier recounts a photographic campaign aboard a Concarneau trawler within a lecture on the great fisheries. Images from voyages to southern Ireland and later work on a live-bait tuna boat record Breton sailors through labour, routine and quieter moments at sea. His testimony connects those photographs with routes reaching from northern waters to Mauritania and with the port memory preserved by the Musée de la Pêche.

  • Rendez-vous – Emgavioù in Landévennec: Monthly Lectures

    Rendez-vous – Emgavioù in Landévennec offers a cycle of talks rooted in local history, language and Breton cultural questions. The title itself brings French and Breton together, signalling a bilingual frame for public knowledge. The meetings give the abbey village a regular forum where scholarship, memory and regional identity can be discussed.

  • Femmes et Phares Conference in Lanildut: Women’s Impact

    Femmes et Phares studies women’s roles in lighthouse history from Lanildut, a commune strongly tied to the Iroise coast. The conference places maritime work, family life and coastal memory beside the technical history of lights. Its angle is specific: it looks at women often kept outside the official lighthouse narrative while keeping the subject anchored in Breton seafaring culture.

  • Fête de la mer in Trébeurden: Maritime Festivities

    Trébeurden’s Fête de la mer gathers maritime devotion, recreation and scientific interpretation at the Castel car park. Worship and local exhibitors sit alongside food, live music and opportunities to go out on the water. Short talks on marine subjects add an educational layer, linking the social life of the harbour with the ecology and practical knowledge of the surrounding sea.

  • George Sand Conference in Nohant-Vic: Editorial Freedom

    Pascal-Henri Poiget examines George Sand’s relationships with publishers and the press in L’écriture de l’indépendance at Nohant-Vic. Sophie Tellier reads passages from the writer’s correspondence. The lecture considers how Sand’s choices shaped her professional independence and her position within the literary world.

  • Sand Flaubert Conference in Saint-Palais: Literary Dialogue

    Sand Flaubert, une amitié féconde enters the private and intellectual dialogue between two major writers through a lecture-reading by Georges Buisson. Their letters carry literary debate, personal confidences and sincere tenderness, revealing a relationship sustained despite markedly different temperaments. Sand, the celebrated writer rooted at Nohant, and Flaubert, associated with Croisset, tested ideas against one another while maintaining a deep mutual regard. Buisson’s adapted presentation allows the correspondence to speak with dramatic immediacy without losing its historical texture. In Saint-Palais, the reading connects this wide literary exchange to Berry and to Sand’s lived geography. What emerges is not a sequence of biographical facts but a friendship built in language, where criticism, humour and care illuminate how two writers thought about art, work and one another.