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.

Marguerite Philippe
Born12 August 1837 Edit this on Wikidata
Pluzunet Edit this on Wikidata
Died14 January 1909 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 71)
Pluzunet Edit this on Wikidata

Life

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She 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

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Her 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 [fr], is located in the square of Pluzunet.[4][6] A street in Quimper, and a street in Lannion, is named for her. Henri Vincenot [fr] described Marguerite Philippe in his novel L'Œuvre de chair.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Marc'harit Fulup, la dernière " cigale bretonne "". RetroNews - Le site de presse de la BnF (in French). 2018-04-16. Retrieved 2023-03-07.
  2. ^ Celtic Culture: A-Celti. ABC-CLIO. 2006. p. 773. ISBN 978-1-85109-440-0.
  3. ^ Sébillot, Paul-Yves (1998). La Bretagne et ses traditions. Paris: Royer. ISBN 2-908670-46-1. OCLC 44425808.
  4. ^ a b c "Marguerite PHILIPPE / Marc'harid FULUP. Encyclopédie Marikavel". marikavel.org. Retrieved 2023-03-07.
  5. ^ Boyd, Matthieu (2010). "The Importance of Formulaic Language in the Gwerzioù". Ollodagos (25): 111–163.
  6. ^ Hincks, Rhisiart (2011-08-10), Marc'harid Fulup 1857-1909 - Plûned, retrieved 2023-03-07