: A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago by Sedgwick Anne Douglas Leslie Paul De Illustrator - Brittany (France) Social life and customs

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I QUIMPER AND BONNE MAMAN 3

II ELIANE 44

V TANTE ROSE 83

VI THE DEMOISELLES DE COATNAMPRUN 98

X THE PARDON AT FOLGOAT 196

A CHILDHOOD IN BRITTANY

This little sheaf of childish memories has been put together from many talks, in her own tongue, with an old French friend. The names of her relatives have, by her wish, been changed to other names, taken from their Breton properties, or slightly altered while preserving the character of the Breton original.

A CHILDHOOD IN BRITTANY

QUIMPER AND BONNE MAMAN

I was born at Quimper in Brittany on the first of August, 1833, at four o'clock in the morning, and I have been told that I looked about me resolutely and fixed a steady gaze on the people in the room, so that the doctor said, "She is not blind, at all events."

Mr. Dobray wore knee-breeches, silk stockings, and a high stock. I see my father, too, very tall, robust, and fair, with the pleasantest face. But my father's figure fills all my childhood. I was his pet and darling. When I cried and was naughty, my mother would say: "Take your daughter. She tires me and is insufferable." Then my father would take me in his arms and walk up and down with me while he sang me to sleep with old Breton songs. One of these ran:

J?sus p?guen brasv?, Pl?gar douras n?n?; J?sus p?guen brasv?, Ad ondar garan t?!

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