Paimpol

There was one for him, postmarked "Paimpol," but it was not Gaud's writing.

An Iceland Fisherman Pierre Loti 1886

On to the Abbey of Beauport (Sancta Maria de Bello Porto), founded in the thirteenth century, beautifully situated on a tongue of land at the entrance of the Bay of Paimpol, opposite the island of

Brittany & Its Byways Fanny Bury Palliser

Paimpol is a seaport town prettily situated in a cultivated country on the bay that bears its name.

Brittany & Its Byways Fanny Bury Palliser

Coëtfrec and others, took the church of Carhaix, which they fortified, and the towns of Paimpol, Lannion, and Landerneau, which they pillaged,

Brittany & Its Byways Fanny Bury Palliser

Two or three miles further we reached Paimpol, where we remained the night, at a nice hotel.

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

And all through the country joy returned with them; and there was happiness for the wives and mothers, and junkets in the taverns where the beautiful barmaids of Paimpol served out drink to the fishers.

Great Sea Stories Various 1897

Poor Fantec -- for it was he -- stammered many excuses: his wife was very ill, and their child was choking in its cot, suddenly attacked with a malignant sore throat; so he had run over to beg for assistance on the road to fetch the doctor from Paimpol.

Great Sea Stories Various 1897

"But after forty years, Toinette, who in Paimpol will remember you?"

The Rough Road William John Locke 1896

Talking of night, "he continued," there's a little burying-ground on the coast in one of the fjords, for Paimpol men who have died during the season or went down at sea; it's consecrated earth, just like at Pors-Even, and the dead have wooden crosses just like ours here, with their names painted on them.

An Iceland Fisherman Pierre Loti 1886