Max Jacob praises Quimper - Introduction


Your native town is a magic city where you walk noiselessly on felt pavements, where you think through passers-by, where houses, at your signal instantly become what you want them to. (Max Jacob)


Sweet Quimper, the nest of my childhood

Max Jacob was born in Quimper on July 12th, 1876. There, he spent the first seventeen years of his life, between 1876 and 1894. Nevertheless, he is too often considered as the poet of « l’Esprit Nouveau » (the New Spirit) of Paris, the author of Le Cornet à Dés (The Dice-Box), edited in 1917. And yet, a very important place is devoted all through his work to his native town.

Quimper is one of the nicest towns in the world, because of its unfailing love for Ideal, Beauty, God, and this under the simplest appearances.

Max Jacob.

Max Jacob at work
Max Jacob at work
Le Grand Velin’s Collection



I write our two spires in block letters.



Plan

Quimper : the city centre
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In red on that map, a trip which follows Max Jacob’s itinerary...


Quimper : the city centre legend

Click on the underlined elements of this grid to find the corresponding pages...
Buildings and monuments
1
Lycée Brizeux
2
Théâtre de Cornouaille
3
A view of the Steïr
4
Collège La Tour d’Auvergne
5
Museum of Fine Arts
6
Cathedral
7
Max Jacob Footbridge
8
Max Jacob Theatre
9
Prefecture
10
Mount Frugy
11
Max Jacob Bridge
12
Max Jacob’s native house
(Café de Bretagne)
13
Café de l’Épée
14
Number 8, rue du Parc
Streets, squares, and rivers
a
Rue du Chapeau-Rouge
b
Rue Kéréon
c
Place Laënnec
d
Rue du Parc
e
L’Odet
f
Place La Tour d’Auvergne





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