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Thuesday 26 February 2026
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After Carhaix and its "Pantheon" of Breton statues, Lorient wants to showcase interceltism year-round: eight works in project.
In Lorient, another emblematic city of Celtic cultures thanks to the Interceltic Festival, a comparable initiative is taking shape, but on the scale of the Celtic nations: the city had already inaugurated, on August 3, 2008, a statue of Polig Monjarret. Today, its promoters want to go further: to install eight statues of musicians from other Celtic countries, in order to make inter-Celticism visible on a daily basis.
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Death of harpist Madeleine Buffandeau, a figure in the revival of the Celtic harp.
The harpist and musicologist Marie-Madeleine Buffandeau-Maingourd, also known by the Breton name “Madalen,” passed away on January 8, 2026, at the age of 89. A tribute will be paid to her on Wednesday, January 14, at 2:30 PM, at the church of Ploufragan.
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Death of Yannig Baron: Brittany loses a great advocate for bilingualism and autonomy.
Born in Groix in 1936, musician (bombarde) and cultural and political activist, Yannig Baron has marked several decades of struggles for Brittany, particularly for bilingual education. Founder of Dihun, the association of parents of students in private Catholic schools, he was a hunger striker several times and received the Collar of the Ermine in 2004.
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From sign to sacred: the symbolic revolution as the cradle of writing?
The Lascaux caves, the steles of Göbekli Tepe and Carnac: a semiology of the sacred? The signs of the engravings and cave paintings function as the invariants of a foundational myth. The metonymy at work in the combination of these signs allows access to the dimension of the sacred.
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A mythological culture of the engraved signs of megaliths in the Neolithic: the Atlantic grammar of a "path of the dead."
The study of the signs engraved on the megalithic monuments of the Atlantic façade, particularly in Morbihan, reveals the existence of a highly coherent symbolic system, reflecting a deep and shared mythological culture in the Neolithic. The recent interpretation, shifting the analysis from a purely agropastoral framework to a maritime and celestial context, allows for the deciphering of a complex narrative, a true "path of the dead" inscribed in stone.
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Glaz, the soul of Brittany
"Glaz": blue, green, or gray. The identity of Brittany is a color. This color is that of the stormy sea.
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