BRITTANY: THE LAND OF THE SARDINE 



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Photo from Hugh M. Smith 



a little fifteenth century church in concarneau 



Filled with votive offerings from the fishermen. The sunny side of the church and the base of 

 the calvary are favorite places for the women to gather to gossip and knit 



At Concarneau we may see most of the 

 Breton industries and customs to very 

 good advantage. In a month's visit to 

 Brittany we might profitably spare a 

 week or ten days for sight-seeing in this 

 town and its immediate environs, and at 

 the end of that time we should probably 

 be loath to leave, even if Paris called. 

 To many people the gay capital would 



have few charms or attractions superior 

 to those offered by this remote little town 

 on the Bay of Biscay. 



The churches of Brittany are the mag- 

 nets to which every heart turns in every 

 community, and it was not surprising 

 that in Concarneau some of the most in- 

 teresting sights should have centered in 

 and about a plain little church on the 



