Example sentences for: breton

How can you use “breton” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • As André Breton wrote of fictionalization of actual events: "I do not regard such a thing as childish, I regard it as monstrous.

  • Yesterday's New York Times carried an article on minority-language revival in Europe--particularly Breton in France (the head of the French Academy objects that this will only dilute the purity of French).

  • Building of the original fortress began in 1719, six years after the Treaty of Utrecht had left the French only Cape Breton Island.

  • Cape Breton Highlands National Park is a joy for all nature-lovers.

  • It was a bit of late Romanticism, which flourished in English literature, then in German cinema, and reached an apogee of acceptance in 1973 in a stylish volume by Angelo Maria Ripellino called, after a phrase by André Breton, Magic Prague . But the mystic interpretation is exactly what Peter Demetz, a professor of German at Yale, wishes to counter in his own Prague in Black and Gold: Scenes From the Life of a European City . Demetz's Prague is the city of the late-16 th century Emperor Rudolf II (a scientific-minded man, though he did go mad at the end) and the 19 th century logician Bernard Bolzano.


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