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Flag of the Free State of Glénan - Image by Olivier Touzeau, after a drawing by Hervé Prat, 2 December 2021
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The Glénan archipelago is made of a dozen of islands
surrounding a kind of lagoon locally called la Chambre (The
Room). The area is protected and hosts an ornithological reserve. An
endemic (found only there) narcissus species flowers on the islands
for three weeks in mid-April. This flower was described in 1803 by a
Breton druggist. Fournier gives several names for the flower: N.
reflexus, N. calathinus, N. triander and N.
Loiseleuri, whereas Bonnier calls it only N.
calathinus.
The islands of Bananec and Grenec host the Centre nautique de
Glénan, the biggest yachting school in Europe. Island St.
Nicolas hosts an international scubadiving center. Penfret island
hosts a lighthouse, and Cigogne island hosts ruins of a XVIIIth
century fort and a laboratory of marine biology. In the past,
causting soda was produced from wrack on the archipelago.
The Glénan archipelago is located south of Concarneau, which is one of the main
centers of sardine canning industry, and part of the commune of Fouesnant.
Ivan Sache, 4 April 2002
According to Ar Banniel
[arb] #18, a short-lived independent
Republic of Glénan was proclaimed in August 1926. Ar
Banniel shows the flag of the Republic and several proposals in
case of an hypothetic restoration of the Republic, without providing
historical details.
The flag is white with a blue sardine placed horizontally in the
middle of the flag and nearly touching the vertical borders of the
flag.
Jaume Ollé, 25 July 2003
Léon Broquet (1869-1935) is a French painter and engraver, having practiced his art mainly in landscape painting, seascapes, history painting. On August 8, 1926, the time of a trip with friends, he celebrated with a group of painters the "Proclamation of the Free state of Glénan". In the book Le Cercle de mer which traces this event, Léon Broquel (for Léon Broquet) proclaims himself the King of the Free State of Glénan (sometimes styled "Republic of Glénan"). The creator of the flag is a watercolor artist named Pellerier. Historical source: Michel Guégen and Louis-Pierre Le Maître, "Le Cercle de Mer, Histoire des Isles de Glenan", Bannalec, July 1981, reported by the Breton Vexillological Society (source).
Olivier Touzeau , 2 December 2021