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Famous Breton Americans and Americans of Breton descent include John James Audubon, Jack Kerouac, and Joseph-Yves Limantour. From 1885 to 1970, several thousand Bretons migrated to the United States, many of them leaving the Black Mountains of Morbihan . [ 20 ]
A map of the surname Griffin in the U.K., Ireland and the Isle of Man. Surname maps are maps which display and indicate the highest concentration of residents with a particular surname, or set of surnames. This information can be useful for studying the current or historic distribution of surnames, and occasionally their origin.
Breton or Bretón is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Adela Breton (1849–1923), English archaeologist; Alex Breton (born 1997), Canadian ice hockey player; André Breton (1896–1966), French author and surrealist theorist; André Breton (1934–1992), Canadian singer; Aurora Bretón (1950–2014), Mexican archer
In the Cornish language, ultimately a language linked to Welsh and Breton, the prefix 'map' may have been used, as in Welsh, to indicate the relationship of father to son, this later becoming "ap" (as in NW Breton area, Leon dialect, Breton WP) and then finally the "p" alone being prefixed to the name, e.g. (m)ap Richard becoming "Pri(t)chard ...
Le Besco is a surname of Breton origin. It may refer to any the following people: Besco derives from a Breton diminutive of besk which means curtailed or tailless. Isild Le Besco (born 1982), a French actress; Jowan Le Besco (born 1981), a French actor, scriptwriter, director and chief cameraman; Maïwenn Le Besco (born 1976), a French actress
A large wave of Breton immigrants arrived in the New York City area during the 1950s and 1960s. [3] Many settled in the East Elmhurst neighborhood of Queens. [3] However, more than 10,000 Bretons left their native land to emigrate to New York. [4] There is also a Breton soccer team in Queens.
Several thousand place names in the United States have names of French origin, some a legacy of past French exploration and rule over much of the land and some in honor of French help during the American Revolution and the founding of the country (see also: New France and French in the United States).