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On April 15, 1922, Octave-Louis Aubert, a journalist, publisher and editor living in Saint-Brieux (Côtes-du-Nord, Brittany), launched the monthly journal La Bretagne touristique, renamed Bretagne in 1929. Through his publication, illustrated with rich iconography in which photography figured prominently and favoured regionalism, Aubert sought to promote Brittany in all fields - economy and tourism certainly, but literature and art above all - by defending Brittany's traditions while associating them with modernization and modernity. Texts by well-known writers supported this initiative. Photographic and textual reports created the portrait of a territory with a strong regional identity that strove to preserve its Celtic language, Breton, its costumes and its traditions by promoting its heritage and its past, but strove also to modernize. At the same time, especially in the 1930s, the journal brought attention to young creative Bretons (writers, poets, painters, sculptors, engravers, musicians) by publishing their texts or reproducing their works. The perusal of the 173 issues published during the between-the-wars period demonstrates that La Bretagne touristique forged images of the “country of Breton,” this “tiny homeland” that was working to preserve its regional identity within the framework of the “larger homeland” of France after the sacrifices made in World War I.
Keywords: entre-deux-guerres, régionalisme, culture bretonne, photographie, littérature, between-the-wars, regionalism, Breton culture, photography, literature
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In this article, I examine the many dedications addressed to Anne of Brittany in the late 15th and early 16th centuries. The 22 dedications that form the corpus of this study offer scholars insight into the nature of the books in her library, the motivations of the authors who gave her these works, the image of the queen so depicted, and the book culture of the time. Thanks in part to the male writers seeking and receiving the patronage of Anne of Brittany, a substantial body of literature praising and defending women emerged at the French court and in the public at large, all strategically favourable to the queen and highlighting themes that would please her, including the subject of female virtues. Most of these authors addressed Anne of Brittany in manuscript form. A different public was targeted when the printed works included dedications to the queen, with printers and booksellers wooing a middle class market by playing up the author's direct association with Anne of Brittany. Appendix I provides a list of the 21 works that contain the 22 dedications addressed to Anne of Brittany. Appendix II includes edited versions of the dedications never before published, which appear in the following works: Robert du Herlin, L'Acort des mesdisans et bien disans; Alberto Cattaneo, [Histoire des rois de France, en latin]; Pierre Le Baud, Le liure des cronicques des roys, ducs et princes de Bretaigne; Antoine Dufour, Les epîtres de saint Jérôme; Germain de Brie, Chordigerae nauis conflagratio; Pierre Choque, L'incendie de la Cordelière; Maximien, La Vie de Sainte Anne.