Treguier

Farmers of considerable means and excellent repute were to be found sleeping in ditches, all along the road to Treguier, even as late as the afternoon of the next day.

Tales of Unrest 1920

WE WERE driving along the road from Treguier to Kervanda.

Tales of Unrest 1920

In short, all my defects are those of the young ecclesiastical student of Treguier.

Recollections of My Youth Renan, Ernest, 1823-1892 1897

The last of the bishops of Treguier left one evening by a back door leading into the wood behind his palace and fled to England.

Recollections of My Youth Renan, Ernest, 1823-1892 1897

The monasteries were called in the Breton dialect pabu after the monks (papae), and in this way the monastery of Treguier was known as Pabu Tual.

Recollections of My Youth Renan, Ernest, 1823-1892 1897

St. Yves was the object of even deeper popular devotion, the patron saint of the lawyers having been born in the minihi of Treguier, where the church dedicated to him is held in great veneration.

Recollections of My Youth Renan, Ernest, 1823-1892 1897

Most of my fellow-students were brawny and high-spirited young peasants from the neighbourhood of Treguier, and, like most individuals occupying an inferior place in the scale of civilization, they were inclined to air an exaggerated regard for bodily strength, and to show a certain amount of contempt for women and for anything which they considered effeminate.

Recollections of My Youth Renan, Ernest, 1823-1892 1897

This was just the rule laid down and observed by my masters at Treguier and St. Sulpice: Victum vestitum, board and lodging and just enough money to buy a new cassock once a year.

Recollections of My Youth Renan, Ernest, 1823-1892 1897

I was spending the holidays with a friend in a village near Treguier, and in the afternoon of the

Recollections of My Youth Renan, Ernest, 1823-1892 1897

The vast monastic edifices of Treguier were once more peopled, and the former seminary served for the establishment of an ecclesiastical college, very highly esteemed throughout the province.

Recollections of My Youth Renan, Ernest, 1823-1892 1897