Brittany is too small to close oneself up in it. This is why many

Bretons are sailors, adventurers, wandering spirits. Today we

travel around the earth to get what the peninsula does not put in

our cradle : world languages, a range of philosophies, scientific

knowledge and artistic expressions, the spices for our food, the

chips for our computers.

Our Breton identities are world mosaics. But the central and

necessary part of them is our link with the people who lived here.

Among them were kings, druids and saints. On this Land's End,

which draws Europe towards the open sea, also rose silent

conspirators, wild rebels, enchanting poets and musicians, entre-preneurs.

Now it's our turn. A nation is a collective adventure.

This small book is a book of history. It puts historical documentation

in perspective with geography, culture and an international

environment.