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WHEN THE HEART IS YOUNG IN OLD-WORLD BRITTANY
| On fête days and at weddings the Bretons don their brightest and most characteristic attire, and take part in one of the more interesting of the institutions of the country, the old-fashioned but wholly picturesque gavotte. The music for this is usually supplied by the ancient Armorican bagpipe or "biniou" and a flageolet, one of the musicians at intervals putting down his instrument to sing some traditional air. Though to the casual observer this gavotte seems almost a frolic or very like a country dance, every movement in it is orderly and regular, and it has been traced back to early Druidical times |