These few verses from a man named La Fontaine, tells the difficulties of a man with an cart stuck in the mud , give an
idea of the problems of circulation at the epoch in the region of Quimper:
- Le bonhomme était loin
- The man was far
- De tout humain secours. C'était à la campagne
- Any human help. It was in the countryside
- Près d'un certain canton de Basse-Bretagne
- Near a certain canton in Low-Brittany
- Appelé Quimper-Corentin.
- Called Quimper-Corentin
- On sait assez que le destin
- One knows that the fate
- Adresse là les gens quand il veut qu'on enrage...
- Brings people there when it wants them to be in rage....
- Dieu nous préserve du voyage !
- God preserves us from such a travel!
Yes, Quimper deserves itself !
