Culture
Lorient was the birthplace of: Jean-Baptiste Chaigneau (1769-1832), sailor, adventurer, and Grand Mandarin in Vietnam Jules Simon (1814-1896), statesman and philosopher; and Marie-Léontine Bordes-Pène (1858-1924), pianist
Lorient is the home of a major Celtic music festival, the Festival Interceltique de Lorient. It is also the home of FC Lorient Bretagne Sud whose stadium, Stade du Moustoir, is in the city centre. In the 2006 Tour de France, Lorient hosted the end of Stage 8.
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“I am writing to resist the view that Europe and civilization are going to Hell. If I am being “crucified for an idea”Mthat is, the coherent idea around which my muddles accumulated—it is probably the idea that European culture ought to survive, that the best qualities of it ought to survive along with whatever cultures, in whatever universality. Against the propaganda of terror and the propaganda of luxury, have you a nice simple answer?”
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—Herbert J. Gans (b. 1927)
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