2019/09/12

76 personalities Call to stop the denounce Frenchification of Breton place-names

On September 14th, at noon, a picnic event is organized on the beach of Traez-Beleg in Telgruc. 76 artists, writers, academics and other personalities from the Breton cultural world called on Kemper this morning to stop the Frenchization of toponymy in Brittany.

The Breton toponymy is increasingly ignored by city councils, which are often under pressure from the Post Office. "La Poste" invokes the need to simplify toponymy and eliminate Breton letters such as the CJ, which would pose problems for electronic readers. Breton toponymy has become the last vestige, the final test of the existence of a people and a different identity. Singer Nolwenn Korbell said she was prepared to go to prison for the Breton language.