Annwyl Monsieur Sarkozy
That you kept a British dignitary waiting at the ceremony at Verdun commemorating the 1918 Armistice is of no particular concern to me. No doubt, when ‘the guns fell silent’ at precisely 11am on the 11th November 1918, a number of units over the whole prodigious length of the Western Front continued firing until the message got through. Delays and misunderstandings happen. No doubt also the various aides-de-camp suffered a nail-biting ten minutes while your staff struggled to get you to the church on time. In any event, you did what you were supposed to do, inspected the gleaming lines of ceremonial troops on parade accompanied by your charming wife, laid your wreath and generally behaved in the dignified manner befitting the Head of State of one of the proudest and finest nations of the Western world. The delay didn’t really count for much.
What does concern me, however, and I speak as a Welshman and a proud member of a small but by no means insignificant European nation, is that whether by design, lapse of protocol, temporary loss of memory brought on by the panic of your tardy arrival, poor advice or inadequate briefing – or a combination of all or some of these – you chose to ignore the contribution paid by the sons and daughters of Wales to the defence not only of the Free World, but of your own dear country, in two successive World Wars. “France”, you said, “will never forget the English, Scottish and Irish soldiers who fought on our soil as if it was their own.” You did not mention the Welsh. And yet they too, died in their thousands upon thousands for your soil ‘as if it was their own’.
In fact, during the 1914-1918 war, a disproportionately large percentage of Welshmen (in terms of the population of the British Isles, and England in particular) fought and lost their lives fighting for France and for freedom. A great many, if not the majority of these, would have been Welsh-speaking. The vast majority were very young. Wales lost almost an entire generation fighting for French soil ‘as if it was their own’ – a generation it could not afford to lose. At the same time it lost the hitherto burgeoning impulse towards self-government burned up in the conflagration of jingoism and pan-British ‘patriotic’ fervour the war engendered. The sacrifice of those young lives meant a sacrifice much greater than mere loss of life, suffering and grief. In its participation in the defence of the freedom of your country and the continent of Europe, our small nation lost its own way. One of our poets has written wryly of the Welsh soldier who has – “fought every bloody battle, except his bloody own”! Soldiers from the Celtic countries have traditionally borne the brunt of the fighting in battles for the defence of England’s interests and policies – and still do. I am reminded of the lines:
‘The shamrock of Erin
So fair and so green,
Entwined with the leek and the thistle has been
O may they forever a safeguard compose,
And shelter from danger
Old England’s fair rose.’
Because the young men and women of Wales are destined to be born in the most deprived and economically inactive corner of ‘Great Britain’, the armed forces, even today, offer temporary way of escape from lives condemned to poverty and inertia. A fact of which England’s recruiting officers are only too aware. Jingoism and a phoney ‘pan-British patriotism’ are once again on the march as a near-bankrupt Britain faithfully fights America’s winless wars at colossal expense and increasing loss of life and limb. Indeed, conjuring up a miasma of pugnacious passion seems to be all that is left to a British government which has run out of ideas in the face of the deepest economic recession since the 1930s, and which is facing the break-up – and breakdown – of the viscerally anti-European ‘United Kingdom’.
M. Sarkozy, I believe I am correct in thinking that you are not, by ancestry, wholly French, and that you possess both Hungarian and Jewish blood. It might be appropriate therefore for you to reflect that Hungary, once a small nation like Wales, fought fiercely for her independence against a dying empire whose situation was not too dissimilar to that of ‘Great Britain’ in its death throes, and that Jews who emigrated to Palestine after the Second World War fought against the British Empire – and won – for the right to establish their own state. And, had your aides and close advisors briefed you a little more thoroughly you might have learned that your country was once allied with mine against England in a desperate fight for our independence and freedom. Indeed, it may astonish you to learn that a direct descendant of our butchered royal family, Owain Lawgoch, (Owain of the Red Hand), was given shelter by a French king in the mid-14th Century and brought up in the Royal household with all the dignity of a French prince. Known in France as Yvain de Galles, Owain became a formidable warrior in the service of the French king winning spectacular victories over invading English armies. Owain and his fearsome war-band of fellow Welshmen fought for France on French soil ‘as if it was their own’. He never lost his ambition to liberate his own country and was given French military support to try to do so. That he was never able to realise his dream is down to circumstance and the complex politics of the time. He was assassinated by an English spy while fighting for France outside the walls of Mortagne-sur-Gironde,
It may also surprise you to learn that during Owain Glyndwr’s war of independence at the start of the 15th Century French soldiers fought on Welsh soil ‘as if it was their own’. In the Archive Nationale in Paris you will find a letter from Owain, Prince of Wales, treating with your own King Charles, as a result of which some 10,000 French troops arrived in Wales by boat to help defend our new-found freedom. You may well say that all this happened a very long time ago, but it is a vivid and proud part of our – and your – history. You should not overlook us as easily as you have done, for the manifest destiny of our history has yet to be played out; in the words of one of our greatest modern historians, ‘the Welsh nation in its fullness is yet to be’.
You might also reflect that many thousands of Breton soldiers died on these same First World War battlefields alongside their Welsh cousins. Now we in Wales regard the Bretons as our cousins, for their ancestors left Wales for the continent some 1500 years ago, and their language is directly related to our own. During the Second World War a tiny number of Breton nationalists – less than 80 (and fewer than the number of English renegades who volunteered to join Hitler’s ‘Crusade against Bolshevism’) no doubt sorely frustrated by French intransigence towards their national aspirations, saw in Hitler a hope – a hopelessly misguided hope – of gaining independence for Brittany.
This sad and silly episode was cravenly used by one of your predecessors as a pretext to try and extinguish the flame of Breton identity and legitimate national aspiration. It conveniently overlooked the fact that some 85,000 Frenchmen fought in German Army and SS units on the Eastern Front against the Soviet Union, and a further 35,000 Frenchmen and women willingly and actively collaborated with the secret police apparatus of the Nazi state as denunciators, informers and fellow-travellers. To quote from a Jewish historical archive:
‘The most significant French unit was the Waffen-Grenadier-Brigade der SS Charlemagne, which was augmented by French collaborators fleeing the Allied advance in the west, as well as Frenchmen from the Horst Wessel Brigade and Organization Todt. Others came from the Vichy French Milice and other collaborationist organisations….’
I do not think I need elaborate further.
The fact is that the vast majority of Bretons joined the Resistance against the German occupation, but Brittany had to pay a painful price for the actions of a few foolhardy hotheads. The soil of France’s battlefields soaked up their blood, just as it soaked up the blood of the sons of Wales. And if I complain that we are forgotten, then our Breton cousins are forgotten too. Their sacrifice was no less great, no less selflessly given, no less dearly bought – yet their rights have yet to be won.
Incidentally, M. Sarkozy, what also concerns me is that the English ‘Prince of Wales’ – a title, incidentally, without meaning or purpose, since our own true Royal family was exterminated by the lineal forefathers of the man standing by your side at Verdun on Sunday – remained silent and sullen despite his assumed role at your unfortunate and regrettable omission. I wonder if he drew attention to your gaffe during the champagne and canapés which followed. I wonder if, indeed, he noticed, or cared, at all.
So you see, M. le Président, by ignoring us, for whatever reason, you do both a disservice to the memory of those who fought on your soil ‘as if it was their own’ and to the Welsh nation of today as it emerges from centuries of obscurity and stagnation. You may be unaware that Wales now has its own ‘National Assembly’ but your foreign ministry officials will certainly be aware that the French state responded to this development some ten years ago by appointing a very effective and active Honorary Consul in our capital, as did a number of other states throughout the world.
In conclusion, you can also be sure, M. Sarkozy, that should the soil of France ever again be threatened by an invader, the men and women of Wales, as Europeans and friends, will be among the first to answer your call for help.
Veuillez croire, Monsieur le Président, à l’assurance de mes sentiments les plus distingués.
Cymro balch – A proud Welshman
Sarkozy…..***ker!
As a Breton, I must, and I’m glad to, approve all of what you said, and I want to say thank you.
Thank you for saying that M.Sarkozy forgot our dear cousins, but thank you too for dealing with us, and remind to Frenchmen that there were not alone in the War, and that we are not the devil nazi’s collaborators they describe, when they talk about us.
I assiociate myself to say that Bretons and Welsh shall not leave France alone on the next invasion, but I assiociate also myself to say the time of our nations should -and will- come.
Let’s prepear ourselves !
Kenavo deoc’h, Kembre, ha trugarez kalz !
Sorry for my poor english, but I want to say I agree to the comment of my fellow country man concerning the oblivion of mr SARKOZY which does not surprise me. Not at all! We, bretons and welshmen, are just “cannon fodder” for England and France. Let us fight for our freedom, and our future, and I hope it our unity in the near.
Bevet Celtia!
Brilliant! Let the traitorous David Davies MP read this and hang his head in shame for his recent comments in the press. Of course, he loathes France and Europe as much as he loathes the idea of a Free Wales. He probably hasn’t even heard of Breizh. May God bless Wales and Brittany whose sons shed their blood for freedom but remain colonies of arrogant and morally bankrupt has-been states. Being cannon fodder over so many generations, as your proud Breton correspondent says, has brought us nothing but poverty and despair on the fringes of the “free world”. Fe godwn eto! Tiochfaidh an la! Bevet Celtia! Our day will come!
I wonder if the French Prsident read it, and does he really care
Shall we say a faux par on the grand scale…
I concur absolutely with the other responders above: this letter is a magnificently angry and proud history lesson for the French President and the superficiality of present-day politics.
Henry Jones-Davies has once again done Wales proud.
Apart from poetry quoted, I was also reminded of the R S Thomas lines from his poem ‘Welsh History’:
‘..We were a people wasting ourselves
In fruitless battles for our masters,
In lands to which we had no claim,
With men for whom we felt no hatred…’
Wow! You can always count on Henry to tell it like it is! Bravo ….Well said!
Disgusted. Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I’ll be writing a letter to the French consulate.
Here in Australia the feeling of pride for the efforts of the anzac forces in all conflicts is immense, from a relatively small population just like Wales . The french people are great, but they seem to breed even worse politicians that ours or the Brits. This piece by HJD is tremendous and ensures the Welsh won’t be overlooked.
We’re overlooked again eh? How typical. It is time to put an end to this nonsense. Thank you Mr. Jones-Davies for bringing it to everyone’s attention.
Perhaps Monsieur Sarkozy, his wife and staff, should take a trip to Mametz Wood?
One of the loveliest memorials to WWI stands there, placed more than 50 years late, but nonetheless, a proud guardian to the memory of those young Welsh men who never got to come home again.
The French side should also familiarize themselves with the story of what a horrific blood bath it was, and how Britain’s greatest PM, David Lloyd George, had to send, with aching heart, boys from his beloved home corner of the UK, knowingly to their deaths.
Mnsr. Sarkozy take note, supercillious, token comments don’t make heartfelt gestures to the war dead. Frankly, I’d rather read Lt. Col. John McCrae’s moving poem, than listen to political speeches that in the end, are hollow and empty.
Well said, sir! Cymru am byth! Cymru rhydd!
What experience and history teach is this – that people and governments never have learned any- thing from history, or acted on principles deduced from it. Hegel.
Well said H. I know of many Bretons who will read this with sadness and pride; knowing our past will only help us shape our future.
Gair bach o Ffrainc.
A very well balanced letter of admonishment. I have attempted to translate the letter into french and I have distributed to all my frnech friends. I am permanently domiciled in France. Diolch yn farw iawn am eich geiriau priodol.
Yn gywir
W.Glyn Thomas
What a shame, where did you find that 85000 french volunteers were in the east front?
The LVF had a maximum of 6500 volunteers (some weren’t french) engaged in the east front. The Charlemagne SS division had about 3700 men (survivors of LVF and others). It’s not 85000.
In the other hand the collaboration of breton nationalists is well documented and you must read the archives of the german army to know the reality of the breton nationalist collaboration during WWII. 80 collaborators is far from the reality and the breton in the resistance where in a large majority not breton nationalist militant.
I hope Charles, “Prince of Wales” reads this open letter and is suitably ashamed that he did not have a quiet word in Sarkozy’s ear at the time, or at least elicit an apology to Wales from him later. I assume an apology is still not forthcoming – which should add to Sarkozy’s shame in this matter. Perhaps the French Prime Minister could have a word to his President on our behalf – I believe his wife is Welsh.
The thoughts of the great Gwynfor chime with those of Henry Jones-Davies
His words –
After the war the Breton Nationalist Party was ruined as a result of
persecution of its members. A very small group of them had been
guilty of collaborating with the Germans and even fighting for them
in a military unit named after Father Perrot, a priest and Nationalist
who had been murdered by members of the Resistance, almost
certainly Communists. What the great majority of Nationalists had
done was to take advantage of the German occupation to promote
the language and culture of Britanny, which since the days of
Napoleon France had been trying to suppress, and to further the
movement that had been working for self-government. The French
education system is so completely centralized in Paris that it’s said
the Education Minister can tell at any given hour what is being
taught in all the schools of the land. It was this system which had
completely proscribed the Breton language from all state schools,
even as a subject. There had been a slight slackening after the
Germans occupied the country. But as the occupiers were being
driven out the French Establishment, and especially the Commu
nists, with the support of the greater part of the people, it must be
said, seized their opportunity and began trying to destroy Breton
Nationalism altogether. Dozens were murdered, others executed,
and hundreds and perhaps thousands were imprisoned, many for
life. A number escaped with their lives to Wales. My wife Rhiannon
and I gave sanctuary to a dozen of them at various times at
Wernellyn.
‘Brython i aros gyda Brython,
Er i bedair canrif ar ddeg gerdded dros y dwr.’
I hate being Welsh . We’re the lowest of the f**king low, the scum of the earth, the most wretched, servile, miserable, pathetic trash that was ever shat into civilization. Some people hate the English, but I don’t. They’re just w**kers. We, on the other hand, are colonized by wankers. We can’t even pick a decent culture to be colonized by. We are ruled by effete ar**holes. It’s a shite state of affairs and all the poetry in the world will not make any f**king difference.
I’m sure that president Sarkozy doesn’t read or doesn’t care about your letter because you don’t say the true about french collaboration and breton nationalists collaboration.
And don’t forget the facts: breton colonized a part of armorica and not the french who colonized britanny.
Other fact: people called breton are not your cousins. History learns us that breton (from great-britain) came in the west of the actual britanny corresponding to half of the inhabitant of this land. The other half was gallo-roman and franks. Then the breton had taken the “pays nantais” and “rennais” and the population was the double of the original breton aera. This observation shows that about 25% of the whole population of britanny was originaly breton…
Last point, the breton language was never speaked in all the brittany and roman language (french language ancestor) was in britanny before the invasion by breton.
“What the great majority of Nationalists had
done was to take advantage of the German occupation to promote
the language and culture of Britanny”
Unbelievable. It’s stupid. I guess for you to write anti-semitic articles and to support jews elimination was just a way to promote the Breton Culture! You hidden Breton nationalists who have called to kill Jews. Do you think it’s a good way of life exemple?
A very useful contribution, although I doubt whether M Sarkozy would understand it even if one of his entourage were to read it to him v-e-r-y s.l..o…w….l…..y…..
I have by me a book of poems written on the run by one of the greatest French poets, Louis Aragon. Then I read M Sarkozy’s frighteningly casual dismissal of an entire people who suffered terribly. This make me unbearably sad. Could someone send him a DVD of ‘Hedd Wyn’, I wonder?
Tit Liv -what Gwynfor did was protect innocent Breton nationalists – where did your 85 000 French soldiers who fought with the Nazis hide ? In François Mitterrand’s shed ? After all your former President was a collaborator himself was he not ?
And you French dare to call Breton people terrorists – what did you do when you sank the Rainbow Warrior ?
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6VUPV_fJJR8
Dear Ifan Arswydus,
Where did you find that 85000 french soldiers fought with the nazi in the east front? Could you cite your references (book, article, etc.). This point is well documented and the french volunteers were never enough to constitute a real division. The SS division Charlemagne had less than 4000 soldiers (including survivors from the LVF). You can compare with volunteers from other occupied countries which gave more volunteers than France despites they had smaller population like Belgium, Croatia, Nederland, etc.
The 80 breton nationalists collaborators cited in the present Open Letter where the members of the Bezen Perrot but the author forget (why?) the others (collaborators of the gestapo, spy, “journalists” who wrote articles against jews, etc.).
At last, are you sure that the breton nationalists helped by Gwynfor weren’t antisemistic and compromised with nazi?
Tit Liv – The acclaimed American historian Robert Paxton in his scholarly work ‘Vichy France, Old Guard and New Order’ states that only 2% of the French population fought with the resistance ! What did the other 98% of you lot do ? If your not with us your against us!
Even François Marcot, a Professor of History at the Sorbonne, proposed the total figure of those involved in active resistance as 200,000. -your country had a war time population of over 40 million ! You French should, first take out the beam of wood from your eyes, then will you see clearly to take out the grain of dust from your Breton neighbors eyes!
We Welsh on the other hand were ‘pre mature anti-fascist’ – we tried to stop Fascism in its infancy in Spain . Fighting to a man AGAINST Franco, running guns to the Republic through the German blockade and taking in Spanish refugees . Find me one Welsh man who fought with Franco ? Your country remained ‘neutral’ during that conflict and thousands of your countrymen fought WITH Franco in the Carlist Forces !!
Ifan,
What you write is wrong and stupid. You don’t know what was the occupation in France and the difficulties of getting involved in the active resistance. The extreme majority of french weren’t in the active resistance but didn’t support the nazi. The resistants where helped by the population, the allied pilots (and certainly welsh ones) where hidden and evacuated from occupied France by population. Jews where hidden and saved (France is the occupied country with the lesser % of jew population deported). The french reistance gave to the UK the plans of the atlantic wall, the workers intentionally performed sabotage of bunkers, etc. Ok, it’s not the active resistance but these actions saved life of allied soldiers. Etc.
For the spanish civil war, the french governement wanted to sent guns and planes but in 1936 the Great Britain (YOUR COUNTRY) said that if France helf the republic the british government won’t support France against germany. So the french government choose neutrality!
The official neutrility was not full and guns were sent in spain. Juan Negin wrote in 1948 to Leon Blum: ” Personne n’est mieux placé que moi pour savoir quels étaient vos soucis pendant la guerre et ce que les républicains espagnols vous doivent. Je n’ai jamais cessé en privé de rétablir les faits quand la malice ou l’ignorance tâchaient de défigurer la vérité”
GM -What the hell is this about ? Where is the Breton colony ? “And don’t forget the facts: breton colonized a part of armorica and not the french who colonized britanny”
GM -Great Britain my country ? I think not !
GM
“The extreme majority of french weren’t in the active resistance but didn’t support the nazi”
Ha Ha Ha why no yellow in the French flag ?
Ifan Arswydus,
You are a good illustration of what is “revisionism”. Saying things when the facts show the opposite. You always give false informations. The most pathetic is that you do not see your own contradictions . did you go to college? university? That does not seem to be a possibility when I read your comments. Maybe you are a teenager but you should let adults talking about serious things you don’t understand.
Jacques ,
We have a saying in Welsh ‘Ma angen aderyn glan i ganu’ – translated – You must be a pure bird if you want to sing i.e criticise others .
I am merely pointing out the hypocrisy inherent in the French persecution of the Bretons because a handful of them were collaborators during the war with the FACT that the French had a DIVISION fighting with the Third Reich on the Eastern Front . And that as we say is a well documented historical fact !
And by the way since it’s perhaps because I have never been to University that I am unable to find any reference to the Breton colony in America that your fellow traveller GM refers to, can you enlighten me ? I do hope your not making reference to Cape Breton in Canada. Was the Breton invasion on that defenseless island before or after the Welsh attacked New South Wales ?
I agree with the previous comments that point the lies of the open letter and some comments from nationalist people.
Only one territory controlled by the British crown is French speaking and again what happened there during the war ?
The only people to fight the Germans in the Channel Islands were the Irish labourers who were stranded there. And they only fought them because it was their custom to fight the police on a saturday night, no matter what nationality!
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=79g-iV471V0&feature=related
GM I have now read what the historian Paxton has to say on your boast that a lower percentage of jews were deported from France than other occupied countries .
This fact has been used as arguments by supporters of Vichy. However, according to Paxton, the figure would have been greatly lower if the “French state” had not willfully collaborated with Nazi Germany, which lacked staff for police activities. During the Vel’d'hiv raid of July 1942, Laval ordered the deportation of the children, against explicit German orders. Paxton pointed out that if the total number of victims had not been higher, it was due to the shortage in wagons, the Resistance of the civilian population and deportation in other countries (notably in Italy).[32]
I agree that the vichy “french state” collaborated with nazi in the jews deportation.
Laval was placed by nazi at the head of the government in 1942 after the attack of the south zone (he wasn’t in the government since december 1940). Then, the vichy government was controled by the german. I suggest you to read Annette Wieviorka who is a specialist of the jew deportation history before saying stupid things.
About your funny video, you must know that the french navy and french territories in north africa where close to join De Gaulle and fight with british… but churchill decided to attack in Mers-El-Kebir. The consequences were the battles in liban and syria, the defeat in Senegal, and more difficulties to conduct the war in mediterranean sea. Admiral Somerville said about Mers-El-Kebir :”the biggest political blunder of modern times and will rouse the whole world against us…we all feel thoroughly ashamed…”. This attacks leads to the end of IIIe republic and the creation of the “frech state” and help Laval to prepare Montoire.
What is you age? Did you go to school? Your arguments are so superficial that you have maybe a small education level. It’s good for you to be interested by serious things but you should take courses after your work to develop a more “logical” mind and to evolve.
Another point. In 1942 Weygand talk with Laval and he said: ” Mr Laval 95% of the french are against you.” Laval, answered :”You must say 98%”.
The collaboration policy wasn’t supported by the population. It’s known, documented and noone can show the opposit.
Ifan Arswydus,
Ok, you are certainly a preteen plying on the internet. Maybe your parent have to be more involved in your education.
Now go to learn your lessons.
Bye,
Sylvain
I’d like to throw in a few comments.
The last defenders of the Reichstag were Norwegian and French fascists. No Germans were present. The French of the Charlemagne division and other SS units served out of conviction. Any Bretons served because the “enemy of my enemy is my friend”.
My father was an American combat officer in Normandy. He said the story of the resistance was all blown up out of proportion and that a large number of the French civilians were not friendly towards Allied soldiers (of course we had been bombing them along with the Germans) and many of the French girls were hiding their German boyfriends in their cellars.
The comment was made that the Britons were the invaders taking over Britanny (in the 4-6th centuries). Many linguists and historians believe there still was a Celtic population in Amorica despite the “Romano French” “invaders” of a previous era. It is an historical verite that the French government has long ago trashed the treaty linking the Duchy of Britanny with France.
Small nation nationalism is defensive in nature; large nation nationalism is aggessive and has no room for small nations. This is true in Britain, France, Russia, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and in the US with our native Americans. In Wales if you are not a Welsh nationalist you are by default an English nationalist. To the English the term British and English are interchangeable and mean the same thing. In Britanny if you are a Breton nationalist you can be under the watchful eyes of the securite.
Another bit of history. Shortly after M. DeGaulle (who had an uncle I believe who was a Breton nationalist) made his infamous Vive Quebec Libre speech in Canada, some Breton nationalist staged a demonstration. So when a French minority feels its oats it’s ok. But when the Bretons do it, it is wrong. Like in Russia where Ossetian and Abkhazian self determination is good but Chechen self determination is bad.
Ah ah ah, what a strange historical view. Yes some french traitors where in berlin. But they were a minority. The french had about 600000 deads during WWII the double of british. I never heard any comments agaisnt the allied forces despite they killed numerous french. My Grand-mother had her first daughter killed in an american raid. My grand-father was war prisonner in germany and my other grand-father was pilot in RAF (volunteer in 1940 and participated to the battle of GB). They were not exceptions. Frenchs took Monte Cassino with polish, they stoped germans near Strasbourg in 1944 during the ardennes affair, they save the retreat of british army in north africa during the Bir Hakeim battle etc. So I don’t think you can continue with your american propaganda.
The Franks where in armorica since IIIe century, britons came after. The armoric was colonized by bretons. It’s an historical fact. The actual population is celt as the rest of france. The celts heritage is everywhere in France and not corresponds to the actual commercial “celtic” culture. The celtic language talked in france was Gaulois. This language wasn’t talked anymore in IIIe century but the laguages used by population was roman languages (mix of latin and gaulois which evolved to lead to the creation of french language). Numerous french words are gaulois words (eg. ambassade=ambassy; vassal; etc.). The breton is a foreign language imported by bretons. The position of breton nationalists is similar to the one of whites in southern rodhesia.
Conclusion, two options for them i) being french because it’s a french land as the history learns us or ii) to return in their homeland (i.e. GB). The colonial breton rules are over.
Kenavo!
If you study their style of writing I think we must conclude that all the anti-Breton ‘contributors’ are in fact one person .
To be nationalist is to be against the occident and the civilization.
Nationalisms killed 40 millions of europeans during WWII and ten more in WWI.
You are certainly very poorly informed about the reality of breton nationalists collaboration.
I can not believe that people can write things so vile.
Harry you would say that . Switzerland benefited more than anybody from the persecution of Jews.
http://www.allbusiness.com/middle-east/israel/127703-1.html
We are advocating small nation nationalism so that we don’t have large imperialist nation that threaten their neighbors like France does in the Brittany, Corsica and the South Pacific.
Unfortunatly, the small nations are imperialist too. The bretons came from Great-britain. they colonized Armorica and eliminate roman language and dominated the local inhabitants. Now the Breton colonial rules are no more dominant and it’s a good thing.
If you are against imperialism you must consider that the bretons have no rights in continental Europa. But maybe the confusion of your idea is due to the use of Breton (=celt invaders and colon from GB) and the same word “Breton” = people living in the actual Brittany. The actual breton population heritage is mainly roman and franks without any difference compared to the other french people. Only the west of Brittany has some “celt” specificities.
In conclusion the politic and cultural situation of Brittany is very different of the one of Wales despite what you said.
Up to a million French people denounced their neighbours to the Nazis during the Second World War, historians have revealed.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/3543112/Petty-disputes-led-to-Nazi-denunciation-in-WWII-France.html
Your posts are clearly racists against the French. The Anglo-American propaganda has contaminated you.
Here in Australia the feeling of pride for the efforts of the anzac forces in all conflicts is immense, from a relatively small population just like Wales . The french people are great, but they seem to breed even worse politicians that ours or the Brits. This piece by HJD is tremendous and ensures the Welsh won't be overlooked.