Breton, the Celtic language of the French region of Brittany, is to be taught at Harvard. The prestigious American university has agreed to work more closely with the university in Brittany's regional ...

The fight to keep alive the French regional language of Breton has been given a boost by America's oldest university after an historic agreement was struck between a French university and Harvard.

NPR's Nick Spicer reports on the controversy of teaching the Celtic language Breton in immersion schools in France. Many believe the French government should not support the special schools in which ...

An Oriant, France (CNN)-- At a busy creperie amid the cobbled medieval streets of Quimper in Brittany, northern France, a lunchtime crowd is enjoying hearty galettes packed with combinations of meats, ...

A FORMER Cardiff couple are using their Welsh links to help revive the Breton language. Richard Thorpe and his Breton partner Dr Jacqueline Gibson both speak Welsh and Breton and have been active ...

Literature written in the Breton language in the 20th and 21st centuries presents something of a paradox in that although the number of Breton speakers has continued to decrease throughout the 20th ...

They have their own schools, bilingual road signs, vibrant festivals and dubbed Perry Mason repeats on television. But even the most passionate champions of the Breton language admit that its survival ...

When the Breton writer and scholar Per Denez was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Wales in 1985, he was astonished to hear its chancellor, Prince Charles, say how sorry he was not to ...

At the village of St Anne la Palud in western Brittany, I followed the Celtic saints as they went down to the sea at the annual religious fete they call the "grand pardon". A mission to find out what ...

The fight to keep alive the French regional language of Breton has been given a boost by America's oldest university after an historic agreement was struck between a French university and Harvard.