Guingamp

The game features the French Cup winner, in this case League 2 outfit Guingamp, against the French champions looking more and more like Bordeaux.

It's about the money, but so what? Duane Rollins 2009

The women of Guingamp wear high muslin caps, dark petticoats, and black stockings.

Brittany & Its Byways Fanny Bury Palliser

Guingamp to the assistance of the town, and were all massacred.

Brittany & Its Byways Fanny Bury Palliser

We proceeded by the railway to Guingamp, next to St. Brieuc, the principal town of the department, capital of the duchy of Penthièvre.

Brittany & Its Byways Fanny Bury Palliser

It is situated in the richly wooded and cultivated valley of the Trieux, a favourite fishing river of considerable size, and affording trout, salmon, and dace, from Guingamp to Paimpol, where it falls into the sea, a distance of twenty miles.

Brittany & Its Byways Fanny Bury Palliser

Morlaix, Henry VIII. sent a fleet up the river to attack the place, and the commander, being informed by a spy of the absence of the chief nobles at Guingamp, and of the townsmen at the fair of Pontivy, landed with a force which entered Morlaix, burnt it, and returned laden with booty to their boats.

Brittany & Its Byways Fanny Bury Palliser

Guingamp — Knitting and spinning — Ransom for Du Guesclin, 74 — Chapel of St. Leonard patron saint of prisoners — Curious charms against fever, 75.

Brittany & Its Byways Fanny Bury Palliser

We returned late to Carhaix, and left next day for Guingamp, passing, about two miles out of the town, through the village of St. Catherine on the Hierre, where the church has fleur-de-lisé windows, like that of

Brittany & Its Byways Fanny Bury Palliser

Guingamp was given by Duke John V. to his son Peter, who resided here and rebuilt the castle.

Brittany & Its Byways Fanny Bury Palliser

He was buried at Guingamp, and his widow and children desired his canonisation; but de Montfort, fearing such a step would render him unpopular in Brittany, persuaded Pope Gregory XI. to refuse it.

Brittany & Its Byways Fanny Bury Palliser