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We recently went to Lorient to ask some questions to local residents and passers-by stopped in the street about Brittany. Can you name three important figures in the history of Brittany? Do you know the historic capital of Brittany? Why are the roads free in Brittany? What would you think of an independent Brittany? The answers...sometimes disconcerting, can be found below. This results in particular in a lack of knowledge of the history of Brittany - not surprising when you know that the National Education system does not do its job in this area. For the rest, the historic capital of Brittany is Nantes, of course. Concerning free roads, for many Bretons, this privilege has its origins in 1491 when the King of France, Charles VIII, is said to have forced the Duchess Anne of Brittany to marry him, in order to unite the region with the rest of the territory. This would have demanded in return that the Bretons could travel for free, without tax. However, historians indicate that no trace, in the marriage contract or in the edict of Plessis-Macé of 1532 indicates this. Another explanation comes from the Breton road plan, set up in 1968 and the modernization of Brittany to allow its development, agricultural, economic, industrial. The Celib would then have proposed a plan to General de Gaulle, in which the creation of free express roads (our RN of today) was planned, a demand accepted. To learn more about the history of Brittany, several references: In books, we can study Brittany, the confiscated history, by Frédéric Morvan, but also Illustrated history of Brittany and the Bretons, by Joël Cornette, or History of Brittany, by Philippe Tourault, without forgetting History of Brittany, the Breton point of view, by Jean-Pierre Le Mat or History of Brittany by Abbé Henri Poisson. In addition, comic book fans should absolutely read the collection by Reynald Secher, history of Brittany (with drawings by René Le Honzec). But also the series by Thierry Jigourel and entitled Breizh, History of Brittany, of which we have reviewed all the issues. You now have some weapons to perfect your knowledge of the history of Brittany!