The New Face of Quimper

The Socialist mayor of Quimper, Bernard Poignant, has chosen the photo above to illustrate his New Year's cards, the calendars offered to his co-workers, and publicity posters all over the city. Novopress reports:

The municipal blog Penhars Info finds the photo to be a great success:

"... during an official commemoration ceremony, a veteran, smiling, his chest laden with medals, seems to be drawing attention to his neighbor, a black French boy carrying with great seriousness two French flags. If there were background music it would have to be the Marseillaise." The photo is silent, but it "speaks volumes". No one could put it better.

Licensed to teach History, and leader of the French Socialists in the European Parliament, Bernard Poignant wished to affirm, in a very premeditated way, his conception of the identity of the city he runs: a very "trendy" city, but "patriotic" nonetheless, comfortable in the "diversity" and "living-together" of France. Eradicating in the process any reference to the Breton identity of Quimper, that he probably feels is too old-fashioned. (...)

Another article from the Breton version of Novopress denounces the forced multiculturalism and Jacobinism of the current French government. The photo below is of a check written by Socialist city councillor Ana Sohier that was refused by the recipient - the employment services - on grounds it was written in Breton. The attached note says "please write your checks in French". According to Novopress:

There is absolutely nothing in the laws that forbids writing checks in Breton. As a Socialist, Ana Sohier is probably not the one to complain about this when you realize the low opinion her jacobin friends have of Brittany and the Breton people. (...)


The article also condemns the poster above, and goes on to pledge its commitment to Breton identity:

We, the identitarians of Brittany, refuse this fatalism. We refuse to see the language of our people dragged through the mud by the jacobin authorities while these same authorities allow bilingual French-Arabic signs in their buildings.

We refuse to submit to a system that imposes a mixture of non-European cultures all the while eradicating local identities. (...)

We also urge the people of Brittany to contact the mayor of Quimper to express their total refusal of a multicultural French society that denies Breton identity.