Breton

Breton usually refers to:

  • anything associated with Brittany, and generally;
    • the Breton people of Brittany;
    • the Breton language, a Celtic language spoken in Brittany;
    • the Breton (horse), a breed of horses; and
    • the Breton galette or crêpe, a thin buckwheat flour pancake popular in Brittany.

Breton may also refer to:

Read more about Breton:  Surname, Other Uses

Famous quotes containing the word breton:

    “No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.”
    —André Breton (1896–1966)

    “Much ado there was, God wot,
    He would love and she would not.
    She said, never man was true;
    He said, none was false to you.”
    —Nicholas Breton (1542–1626)

    “It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.”
    —André Breton (1896–1966)