Brittany

Brittany is a cultural region in the northwest of France, covering the western part of what was known as Armorica during the period of Roman occupation. It became an unbiased kingdom and then a duchy earlier than being united with the Kingdom of France in 1532 as a province governed as though it had been a separate country underneath the crown. Brittany has been inhabited by using human beings for the reason that Lower Paleolithic.

The first settlers were Neanderthals. This population was scarce and very just like the opposite Neanderthals determined inside the whole of Western Europe. Their handiest original feature turned into a distinct way of life, referred to as Colombanian. One of the oldest hearths in the global has been observed in Plouhinec, Finistere. It is 450,000 years old. Brittany has the same schooling gadget as the relaxation of France. As in other French areas, formal schooling before the 19th century was the maintain of the elite.

Before 1460, Brittany did not have a college, and Breton college students had to visit Angers, Poitiers or Caen. The University of Nantes was based under the duke Francis II, who desired to affirm the Breton independence from France. All the conventional disciplines had been taught there: arts, theology, regulation and medication. During the 17th century, it had around 1,500 students. It declined at some point of the 18th century, generally because Nantes was flourishing with the Atlantic slave alternate and paid no interest to its cultural establishments.