Marguerite Philippe (Breton Marc'harid Fulup 12 August 1837 Pluzunet - 14 January 1909), was a beggar from the province of Trégor in Brittany, and a storyteller in the Breton language.
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| Born | 12 August 1837  Pluzunet |
| Died | 14 January 1909 (aged 71) Pluzunet |
Life
editShe was illiterate, but endowed with a prodigious memory; she knew about 150 songs ("gwerz") and a large quantity of tales and stories of all kinds, which she had begun to learn from her parents.[1]
She was handicapped, and she could not work with her hands.[2] She also earned her living by attending pilgrimages to Léon and Cornouaille, and by making pilgrimages by proxy, notably to Sainte-Anne-d'Auray or the Tro Breizh, for those who paid her.[3]
On 6 November 1875, she married René Salaün.[4]
Many of the songs and tales they knew were collected by François-Marie Luzel, and published in his works.[5]
Legacy
editHer tomb, in the cemetery of Pluzunet, was sculpted by Yves Hernot. In 1898,[4] Ange M. Mosher, an American patron of Breton culture, commissioned a monument to her memory, in Pluzunet with Anatole Le Braz and other Breton regionalists.
Her statue, by Morley Troman, is located in the square of Pluzunet.[4][6] A street in Quimper, and a street in Lannion, is named for her. Henri Vincenot described Marguerite Philippe in his novel L'Œuvre de chair.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Marc'harit Fulup, la dernière " cigale bretonne "". RetroNews - Le site de presse de la BnF (in French). 2018-04-16. Retrieved 2023-03-07.
- ^ Celtic Culture: A-Celti. ABC-CLIO. 2006. p. 773. ISBN 978-1-85109-440-0.
- ^ Sébillot, Paul-Yves (1998). La Bretagne et ses traditions. Paris: Royer. ISBN 2-908670-46-1. OCLC 44425808.
- ^ a b c "Marguerite PHILIPPE / Marc'harid FULUP. Encyclopédie Marikavel". marikavel.org. Retrieved 2023-03-07.
- ^ Boyd, Matthieu (2010). "The Importance of Formulaic Language in the Gwerzioù". Ollodagos (25): 111–163.
- ^ Hincks, Rhisiart (2011-08-10), Marc'harid Fulup 1857-1909 - Plûned, retrieved 2023-03-07