Some miscellany: Lots of streets here are named in honour of a Doctor Laennec. This esteemed individual from Quimper, René-Théophile-Hyacinthe, drawing on his skill with crafting wooden flutes as a hobby and a medical background, invented the stethoscope and defined many aspects of respiratory ailments, as well as introducing the technique of intubation and coining clinical terms like cirrhosis and melanoma.
While Germany has its preference for traffic circles as well, France really has perfected the rond-point or carrefour giratoire (treiñ-tro) at every crossroad (great and small), which really reduces the logistics of a left turn and the need for extra lanes and on- / off-ramps but can become a bit exhausting, particularly when every one is announced by the navigation. Though the traditional protectress of Brittany is Mary’s mother Anne—with a basilica dedicated in her honour at Auray (after an apparition) and multiple patrons are no longer recognised, whose cult is first attested, the figure not developed as an ancestor of Jesus in the wider Church in Europe until long after established as mamm gozh ar Vretoned, grandmother of the Bretons. The fête was finally made official by Pope Pius X on her feast day, 26 July, in 1914. The jubilee year marks the date when pilgrimages her shrine were authorised for the first time.synchronoptica
one year ago: Lago Delio (with synchronopticæ)
twelve years ago: a visit to Frankonian Switzerland
sixteen years ago: IKEA napkin designs