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François
Hollande
In the Autumn of 2010 François
Hollande, politician and Socialist Party candiidate for
the upcoming ppresidential elections visited Hulgoat wioth
his current partner and journalist Valérie Trierweiler where
they popped into teh local Crêperie des Myrtilles.
Catherine Frot and Mathilde Seigner
Catherine Frot
 
Mathilde Seigner
These two famous
French actresses recently stayed in Huelgoat (summer 2011)
during the filming of "Bowling" in nearby Carhaix about the
fight to keep the local maternity ward open. The release
date is set for March 2012.
Victor Segalen
 
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Victor Segalen (January 14, 1878 - May 21, 1919) was a
French naval doctor, ethnographer, archeologist, writer,
poet, explorer, art-theorist, linguist, literary critic.
He was born in Brest. He studied naval medicine in Bordeaux.
He traveled and lived in Polynesia (1903-1905) and China
(1909-1914 and 1917). He died by accident in the forest in
Huelgoat, ('under mysterious circumstances' and reputedly
with an open copy of 'Hamlet' by his side).
He gave his name to the university of literature and social
sciences in Brest.
Jane
Fonda
Visited Huelgoat
while shooting a film with her husband Roger Vadim
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jane Fonda (born December 21,
1937) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress,
writer, political activist, former fashion model, and
fitness guru.
Since the 1960s Fonda has appeared in
movies, many of which have contained political messages. She
has won two Academy Awards and received several other awards
and nominations. She initially announced her retirement from
acting in 1991, and said for many years that she would never
act again, but she returned to film in 2005 with Monster
in Law. She also produced and starred in several
exercise videos released between 1982 and 1995.
Fonda has served as an activist for
many political causes, one of the most notable of which was
her opposition to the Vietnam War. She has also protested
the Iraq War and violence against women. She describes
herself as a liberal and a feminist.
Since 2001, Fonda has been a
Christian. She published an autobiography in 2005 and
currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
Paul Serusier
"L'Incantation ou Le Bois
Sacré" 1914
"Solitude" 1891
"The Rocks at Huelgoat" c.1892
Charcoal and pastel on paper
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Paul Sérusier (1864—1927) was a French painter.
He studied at the Académie Julian and was a monitor there in
the mid 1880's In the summer of 1888 he travelled to Pont-Aven
and joined the small group of artists centered there around
Paul Gauguin. While at the Pont-Aven artist's colony he
painted The Talisman under the close supervision of
Gauguin.He later taught at the Académie Ranson and published
his book ABC de la peinture in 1921.Sérusier's thoughts on
art were collected and published in 1950, as Paul Sérusier:
ABC de la peinture, suivi d'une correspondance inédite,
Libraire Fleury, Paris, 1950.
Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac
never came tp Huelgoat but he was one of the descendants of
the Notary of Huelgoat.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, to
French-Canadian parents, Léo-Alcide Kéroack and Gabrielle-Ange
Lévesque, natives of the province of Quebec, Canada.
Research has shown that Kerouac's roots were indeed in
Brittany, and he was descended from a middle-class merchant
colonist, François-Urbain Le Bihan, Sieur de Kervoac, whose
sons married French Canadians.Kerouac's own father had been
born to a family of potato farmers in the village of
Saint-Hubert-de-Rivière-du-Loup. He also had various stories
on the etymology of his surname, usually tracing it to
Irish, Breton, or other Celtic roots. In one interview he
claimed it was the name of a dead Celtic language and in
another said it was from the Irish for "language of the
water" and related to Kerwick. Kerouac, derived from
Kervoach, is the name of one hamlet situated in Brittany in
Lanmeur, near Morlaix.
Jean-Louis "Jack" Kerouac (March 12, 1922 – October 21,
1969) was an American novelist and poet. He is considered a
literary iconoclast and, alongside William S. Burroughs and
Allen Ginsberg, a pioneer of the Beat Generation. Kerouac is
recognized for his spontaneous method of writing, covering
topics such as Catholic spirituality, jazz, promiscuity,
Buddhism, drugs, poverty, and travel. His writings have
inspired other writers, including Ken Kesey, Bob Dylan,
Richard Brautigan, Thomas Pynchon... Critics of his work
have labeled it "slapdash", "grossly sentimental" and
"immoral". Kerouac became an underground celebrity and, with
other beats, a progenitor of the Hippie movement, although
he remained antagonistic toward it. In 1969, at age 47,
Kerouac died from internal bleeding due to long-standing
abuse of alcohol. Since his death Kerouac's literary
prestige has grown and several previously unseen works have
been published. All of his books are in print today, among
them: On the Road, Doctor Sax, The Dharma Bums, Mexico City
Blues, The Subterraneans, Desolation Angels, Visions of Cody
and Big Sur.
JEAN-MARC BARR &
CHIARA
MASTROIANNI
 
In 2008 a a film crew
were shooting in the forest in Huelgoat with several
internatuional cinema stars. Here's a short article from the
i,nternet about the film:
"Jean-Marc Barr joins
Chiara Mastroianni in the next film by Christophe Honoré
(Relaxnews) - The
French actor Jean-Marc Barr (Manderlay de Lars von
Trier) joins the cast of the new film by Christophe
Honoré (La Belle Personne) No, my daughter, you shall
not go dancing tonight. Contacted by Relaxnews, the
artistic agency of the director, Zelig, confirms the
news. Currently under production in Brittany and Paris,
the film boasts Chiara Mastroianni (Un conte de Noël)
headlining the film. "
For an article (in
French) about the plot of the film, click on this
link
Jean-Claude
Dreyfus
The French actor
Jean-Claude Dreyfus, famous for his roles in such films
as Delicatessen and various culinary shows for TV, was in
Huelgoat in 2007 to record a music video . He visited the
granit Chaos in the forest, the moors of the Monts d'Arrée
and the pub Ty Elise in Plouyé for a three day filming
session. The music video is part of the compilation album
Excalibur II which boasts 18 tracks by both Breton and
British groups. Jean-Claude Dreyfus played the role of an
ordinary tourist chasing a fairy through Brittany. And we
all know there are plenty of them in Huelgoat!
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