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Old-Time Costumes at a Modern Breton Wedding

OLD-TIME COSTUMES AT A MODERN BRETON WEDDING

Breton peasants cling as closely to old costumes and customs as they do to the old faith, and the newly-wedded couple at the church porch, dressed in the gala garb of their district, exemplify these national traits, for all Breton life has the local church as its centre, while the people are Bretons first, and French citizens by force of circumstances