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Originally Posted by Cirrus
But in fact, Breton nationalism has never really been an ethnic nationalism, but rather an "historical" one.
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I don't think historical nationalism exists really, if it was the case in France, a province like the
Bourgogne will claim his independence, same for
Franche Compté. In reality these provinces were independent like Brittany but ethnically French. For this reason a specific nationalism is absent there.
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It is the lingua franca of the Breton movement, but in Brittany and even within the Emsav, all the Bretons speak French now.
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When I used "lingua franca", I wanted say it's our symbolic language for western as eastern Bretons. French is used because we are frenchized.
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Another fact is that French was also a language used in Brittany before the French annexion.
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Like in other royal courts in Europe. Even today, the English royal schibboleth are in french («
honni soit qui mal y pense » «
Dieu et mon droit »).
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Yes, and that was a problem in the genesis of Breton nationalism.
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For who is it a problem ?
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Yes, but like Carnyx said, I'm afraid it is only because Breton is more "fashion" than Gallo.
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Will the Breton language will be more fashion than Gallo as now if the eastern part wasn't originally Celtic and if Breton migrants weren't settled there ? I don't think so.