Concordances géolinguistiques et anthroponymiques en Bretagne

Bris, Daniel Le

doi:10.4000/corpus.2339

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“…These findings confirm previous reports of strong genetic affinities between Brittany and Ireland relative to the general population of Great Britain (43). They were further supported with haplotype-based methods, which are more powerful than allele frequency-based ones to capture differential contributions from closely related populations (31,50). Indeed, by inferring ancestry profiles from a set of surrogate sources with GLOBETROTTER, we highlighted the ancestry contribution from Irish populations into present-day Bretons (~24%) and found relatively smaller contributions from Wales or Cornwall (~9- and ~3-fold, respectively).…”

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Genetic population structure across Brittany and the downstream Loire basin provides new insights on the demographic history of Western Europe

Alves

Giemza

Blum

et al. 2022

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European genetic ancestry originates from three main ancestral populations - Western hunter-gatherers, early European farmers and Yamnaya Eurasian herders - whose edges geographically met in present-day France. Despite its central role to our understanding of how the ancestral populations interacted and gave rise to modern population structure, the population history of France has remained largely understudied. Here, we analysed 856 high-coverage whole-genome sequences along with genome-wide genotyping data of 3,234 present-day individuals from the northern half of France and merged them with publicly available present-day and ancient Europe-wide genotype datasets. We also analysed, for the first time, the whole-genome sequences of six medieval individuals (300-1100 CE) from Western France to gain insights into the genetic impact of what is commonly known as the Migration Period in Europe. We found extensive fine-scale population structure across Brittany and the downstream Loire basin, emphasizing the need for investigating local populations to better understand the distribution of rare and putatively deleterious variants across space. Overall, we observed an increased population differentiation between the northern and southern sides of the river Loire, which are characterised by different proportions of steppe vs. Neolithic-related ancestry. Samples from Western Brittany carry the largest levels of steppe ancestry and show high levels of allele sharing with individuals associated with the Bell Beaker complex, levels that are only comparable with those found in populations lying on the northwestern edges of Europe. Together, our results imply that present-day individuals from Western Brittany retain substantial legacy of the genetic changes that occurred in Northwestern Europe following the arrival of the Bell Beaker people c. 2500 BCE. Such genetic legacy may explain the sharing of disease-related alleles with other present-day populations from Western Britain and Ireland.

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Genetic population structure across Brittany and the downstream Loire basin provides new insights on the demographic history of Western Europe

Alves

Giemza

Blum

et al. 2022

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“…Inspired by revolutionary communist movements in Cuba, Vietnam, Palestine and, of course, China, the ‘gépistes’, as they are sometimes known, sought to awaken and empower the masses in the fight against global capitalist imperialism. For Bourseiller, what distinguishes Maoism from other political movements of the French left is its adoration of working people (‘le peuple’) and their virtues (1996). Members of the UJC(ml) were the first to deploy what Bourg has termed ‘the strategy of “proletarian democracy”’, which aspired to serve the people rather than merely advocate for their political rights (2005: 487).…”

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“…Contentious though his role may be, Le Bris has contributed to the literary and cultural life of Brittany throughout his career. In 1996, he wrote the script of a documentary on the Breton author of Le Cheval d’orgueil , entitled Per Jakez Hélias ou le conteur des merveilles (Viotte and Le Bris, 1996). He worked closely with Breton poet Youenn Gwernig and helped him to write his first novel in French, La Grande Tribu (1982) which inscribes the experience of Breton migration in the transnational poetics of the Beat Generation.…”

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From Maoism to littérature-monde: Michel Le Bris and the Breton origins of world literature in French

Saussure

2020

French Cultural Studies

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Since the publication of the 2007 manifesto ‘Pour une littérature-monde en français’, scholars have questioned whether or not the initially inflammatory concept of littérature-monde has produced a meaningful legacy. This article re-examines the controversies which the manifesto provoked by focusing on the intellectual career of one of its principal authors: Michel Le Bris. Scholarly criticism has largely overlooked the fact that Le Bris’s involvement in the littérature-monde project is an extension of his previous involvement with Maoism and his identity as a Breton author. The manifesto can be read as Le Bris’s response to the political and cultural crises of his time which he previously addressed through activism and cultural entrepreneurship. Though Le Bris’s own defence of the manifesto is flawed and problematic, a better understanding of the context from which it originated raises important questions when considering the role of regional and minority literatures in the global age.

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Human genetic structure in Northwest France provides new insights into West European historical demography

Alves,

Giemza,

Blum

et al. 2024

Nat Commun

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The demographical history of France remains largely understudied despite its central role toward understanding modern population structure across Western Europe. Here, by exploring publicly available Europe-wide genotype datasets together with the genomes of 3234 present-day and six newly sequenced medieval individuals from Northern France, we found extensive fine-scale population structure across Brittany and the downstream Loire basin and increased population differentiation between the northern and southern sides of the river Loire, associated with higher proportions of steppe vs. Neolithic-related ancestry. We also found increased allele sharing between individuals from Western Brittany and those associated with the Bell Beaker complex. Our results emphasise the need for investigating local populations to better understand the distribution of rare (putatively deleterious) variants across space and the importance of common genetic legacy in understanding the sharing of disease-related alleles between Brittany and people from western Britain and Ireland.

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Concordances géolinguistiques et anthroponymiques en Bretagne

Cited by 4 publications

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Genetic population structure across Brittany and the downstream Loire basin provides new insights on the demographic history of Western Europe

Genetic population structure across Brittany and the downstream Loire basin provides new insights on the demographic history of Western Europe

From Maoism to littérature-monde: Michel Le Bris and the Breton origins of world literature in French

Human genetic structure in Northwest France provides new insights into West European historical demography

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