Bleus de Bretagne

The colour blue was chosen to contrast with the conservative "whites" and to emphasise their distinction from the Communist "reds"[citation needed].

The term dates back to the Revolt in the Vendée when the counter-revolutionary Whites called the troops of the revolutionary government "the blues" (because of their uniforms).

It grew in Brittany from dissatisfaction with the conservative and clerical bias of the existing Breton Regionalist Union, founded a few months earlier.

It was centred in the French-speaking east of Brittany and was strongest among the urban middle-class of the larger east-Breton towns.

The group promoted the commemoration of liberal and revolutionary heroes, organizing the creation of statues of Lazare Hoche in Quiberon and Ernest Renan in Tréguier.