In April 1907, in application of the Combes law of 1904, which prohibited teaching of any order and nature to religious congregations, the Ursulines were expelled manu militari from their monastery of Jules-Ferry, where they are today the municipal exhibition hall and the college of the same name. The nuns then left, most of them in exile in England, in Beaconfield, not far from Plymouth.
An exile that will last twenty years. Based on personal and family documents, Gilles Belléguic, former general practitioner from Quimperlé, now retired, wrote the story in a work entitled, Twenty years of exile, 1907-1927.
With the help of Ronan Pérennou, who gave him rare photographs; of Sister Colette Lignon, former mother general of the Ursulines and responsible for the order of the Ursulines, in Rome, for twelve years; of Sister Marie-Andrée Jégou, archivist in Rome, then for the entire province and today for Kerbertrand.
Gilles Belléguic will be at a signing session on Saturday, October 6, from 10:30 a.m., at the Frémeur hospital
You can buy your book, for €12, at the Mots voyageurs bookstore, place Hervo, at the La main au basket store, in lower town, or on bookedition.com
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