#Bretagne France

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Emma Löwstedt-Chadwick (Swedish, 1855 - 1932) aka Emma Löwstädt-Chadwick, Strandparasollen, Bretagne, 1880

Emma (Hilma Amalia) Löwstädt was born in Stockholm and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts 1874 - 1880, she traveled to Paris and settled in Grez. There she met the American artist FB Chadwick. They married in 1882. Along with him, she bought the inn, which became the focal point for the Swedish 'konstnärskolonien' (artist colony) Grez. Emma's sister Eva was also an artist.

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Dream job or daring adventure? An annual salary of 1.2 million for the brave soul willing to guard the Zumon Lighthouse on the Brittany coast of France. Sleep when you want, enjoy stunning views, and even go fishing. Yet, the loneliness is profound, and storms with towering waves make it the world's most perilous job.

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Brittany, France

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Instagram credit: opheliesz

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(by alann_bgt)

[allthingseurope]

Josselin, France by Guy_D_2018

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" Golden Vibes " //© Sebastian Grafe

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Vitré, Bretagne

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"As boys and men went out on the boats — “my grandfather was nine when he started,” said the local historian Arlette Julien — girls and women were in the canneries, some from the age of eight, some up to 80. They’d be called in at any time of day or night, whenever the boats came in: in pre-fridge days, sardines needed treating fast.

Dressed in long heavy skirts and clogs, the women would work up to 18 hours non-stop, go home at midnight and then be called back in at 4am. The floors were filthy with mud and sardine guts, the women’s hands wrecked by brine, toilets often a distant rumour … all for 80 centimes an hour. That 80 centimes was just enough to buy a litre of milk, half the wage of a professional washerwoman. All ages earned the same amount.

The strike struck on November 21 and within days 2,100 people were out, 1,600 of them women. The Communist mayor Daniel Le Flanchec pulled the town council behind the strike. He called in Communist support from all over France.

Thus was assured a level of organisation not experienced by earlier French strikes. Funds were raised, soup kitchens sorted, Christmas presents for children arranged and marches assembled. The strike became a national issue.

Finally, though, and after six weeks, the cannery owners were forced to negotiate. They conceded overtime payments, a ban on work for girls under 12 — and a pay rise to one franc an hour. Men got 50 centimes more. “Equal pay wasn’t an issue. The movement was born of desperation,” the history teacher Françoise Pencalet said. “The women simply wanted a little more than what they had.”

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En tu bennak el lanneg / Quelque part dans la lande / Somewhere in the heathlands ✨🖤🤍

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October 29, 2023 - Antifascists in Nantes, Breizh, painted a 30-meter long mural in solidarity with the people of Gaza. [video]

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Brittany, France

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Old door, Morlaix

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Quimper, France *By Ricoucou

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7 juillet. France.