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It is the beautiful island in where varies types of sea fish and seafood are available. The Brittany Island located in the Quessant.The quesant is about 25 km from Le Conquet in the Southern France it was said that, "The Man who wins the bread but the women who butters it". The merchant seamen who are hired the carpenters and masons to build their houses, but in this century it was their wives and their wives sisterly neighbours who spare the domestics kitty by hauling the granite stones used for the facades. It's a storm rocked island of shipwrecks crucial folk tales and a mystic Catholicism that conspired with cult of the dead, the women plays important role in the Island.
Victor Guermeur was born in Quiesscent in 1935 before women sent to the mainland to give birth. He was engaged by the Air Borne Division of the French Navy between 1954 to1977 he became merchant sailor. He was the owner of the mid- nineteenth cottages. The cottages are so beautiful that one can never forget to visit it or want to stay night halt in the ancient cottage. The interiors of the island designed with great sensivities to space. The body of the table was used a dough through, while bread would have been stored on the rack above the window. The entrance of the one of box beds glimpsed just above the bench, the top of which is lifted off to create an extra place for a child to sleep.
As a merchant seaman, Victor Guermeur would have set sail from Quessant at 25 km from the coast the most remote of the Brittany Island- for the first time when he was only eleven. Two or three or more years later he would return home from China or Japan.
Having husband who might not turn up for dinner, did not make romantic visionaries of the women of Quessant. Sometimes the husband never turned up at all, the news is slowly that wives often did not learn that had been widowed until their men had been month dead. When they did find out it was strict observance of an agonizing Quessantine ritual known as proella, which is derived from the Latin "proilla', meaning in place of Proella took place of funeral. When the sailor's disappearance takes place, they went to church to collect two crosses, one of is crafted in silver and one made of wax. When night fell, he made his way with the crosses, to dead man's house and recited the dreadful words that, every island women prayed she would get through life without hearing. It is said that, women's are initiated for marriage in the island. A women closer her young man and brought him cakes, or a piece of lard that he ate while sitting up in bed to signal acceptance, it was not known the man accepted or not of her proposal or she herself displeased him or merely her cakes.
Tourism is now brings more money to the Brittany Island than the handful of men who still work on oil Riggs or process cargo.Quessant measure only 4 by 8 kilometers, and in winter the inhabitants number just 900. During the summer the boat that leaves from Brest and stops off at Le Conquet discharges 1200 peoples or tourists or more a day, but there 80 beds are available, now a days more hotels built up in the beautiful island. In the high season, the numbers of the visitors or tourists are visiting in the beautiful island including those who have an own vacation houses is said to reach approximately 4000 or more tourists. That island is famous for potatoes, and those from Quessant.The seafood are available in the Island which is crabs, oyster, lobster, and various fishes which are very tasty in the Island. A few women on Quessant observed the island custom of cooking with clods, taouarc'h in Celtic.
The seaweed called which is called a wakame came to France by accident as spores attached to oysters imported to the midi from Korea. On Quesant it is raised from a culture to salt water labs to a length of two to three centimeters, the transferred to sea farms where its strung out on lines left grow for kilometers before being harvested. Dried in hangers in the same way as tobacco leaves, it is crumbled in to bark and sold back to the far east as well as to the four island chefs, nobody seem to be very good at evaluating how wakame actually tastes, like salty, musty, and acrid seems a fair description.
It is said that, on the Brittany Island, by the women graze look after the sheep throughout the year. They are the reasons for the animal fair and that is one of the Quessant oldest customs. From the first Wednesday in February to the fete de saint- Michel (29th September), the period of lambing and slaughtering the animal are gather in pairs and moved twice a day to guarantee adequate grazing. During the period the sheep are allowed to breed naturally a system that does not oblige every farmer to keep a ram, on the designated Wednesday of the fairs, beater are employed to round up the animal.
