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Bretagne

NOUN
  1. a former province of northwestern France on a peninsula between the English Channel and the Bay of Biscay

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  • The regions of France still retain their English names – Brittany, Normandy, Burgundy, Gascony show no signs of becoming Bretagne, Normandie, Bourgogne or Gascogne. Loss of anglicizations | Linguism
  • Last Sunday, the French championship was run without radios and again it was very significant that the guy who won, Dimitri Champion was from a small Brittany team (Bretagne-Schuller) and he was in the breakaway with one of the Francaise des Jeux riders, and that rider didn't know that his teammate was coming up to catch them. 2009 Tour de France: Stages have Armstrong legacy
  • Evans's only win in the 2011 Tour was on the fourth stage, which ended in a short climb up to the Mur de Bretagne in western France. Evans Above: Aussie Clinches Tour Win
  • The northwest corner of France, that promontory which we now call Bretagne, with a part of Normandy adjoining it, formed another island; while to the southeast of it lay the central plateau of France. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863
  • Borderie, _Les véritables prophéties de Merlin; examen des poèmes bretons attribués à ce barde_, in _Revue de Bretagne_, vol. liii The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2
  • Ingrande, where we dined, is the last town of the province of Bretagne, on the Loire, and thenceforwards we had entered Anjou. Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808
  • The Bretagne was my ship; it was white with blue stripes along the side and had a graceful bow .. Whoar.co.nz
  • The fabled world of Outremer, once familiar to him, where Olivier de Bretagne had grown up to choose, in young manhood, the faith of his unknown father. A River So Long
  • Between the plateau and Belgium flows a channel, which we may call the Burgundian channel, since it covers old Burgundy; between the plateau and Bretagne is another channel, which from its position we may call the Bordeaux channel. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863
  • A few years later, I took a 5-week tour of France, alone, by train, from one end (Bretagne, Normandy) to the other (St Jean-de-Luz, Lourdes, Narbonne, Nice). Best Tips for Learning French - French Word-A-Day
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