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AUBERIVE ( 4 )

About " Villeneuve " ( Au Sujet de " Villeneuve " )

I , sometimes , have a look back to this time, march 1978 . I decided to go on a skiing holiday for a week . So , I got into a night-train from Paris and arrived in the morning to the Alps , near Serre-Chevalier.

As they say there are none so distant that fate cannot bring them together , I had sure to meet there , in a small village named Villeneuve-La-Salle , an american young woman student from St-Louis , MO ! 

I dedicate this short story to my friend and teacher in breton , VEFA DE BELLAING ( 1909-1998).

She gave her whole life to our cause . She was very brilliant and used to know a lot of things about literature , celtic countries and classical breton musicians such as Paol Ar Flemm , Paol Ladmirault ,  Guy Ropartz , Jef Ar Penven , and many others , all well-known .

She died on the 16th of April 1998 , as " trees and flowers of spring came into blossom ".

Pray for her .

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Painting : " Les Lavandières de Nuit " , Night Washerwomen ( 1861 ) , by Yan Dargent , Breton Painter ( 1824 - 1899 ) .