It celebrates the activities of the group of Free French Britons who founded Sao Breiz in Great Britain during the Second World War.
The architect Jean-Baptiste Mathon was greatly involved in the reconstruction of Brest after the end of the 1939-1945 war and he chose to design a monument shaped like the Cross of Lorraine.
Dans l'univers libre des forces immenses n'ont pas encore donné.
Un jour ces forces écraseront l'ennemi"and "Kentoc'h mervel eget em zaotra"taken from the motto of Brittany "death rather than defilement".
The women depicted cover five generations of a family and we have the grandmother, the mother, the sister, and two young daughters and in their faces Bazin tries to capture their anxiety, their sadness and their resignation to fate.
[3][4][5] The lighthouses of Eckmühl and Ar Men, the flight of Saint-Guénolé and King Gradlon, Tristan, Yseult and Morhold, the Bag-Noz, Morgane, the trespass of Ker-d Ys, Dahut, King Arthur and the "Round table" and the fairy Viviane and Merlin all figure in Bazin's elaborate bas-reliefs.
[8] This Bazin sculpture is to be found at the corner of the rue de la Division Leclerc and the avenue Vatier in Cachan and is dedicated "Aux héros F.F.I.
Bourhis was born in Bannalec and was one of the early French aviators and a test pilot working with Blériot.
Served as a pilot in the 1914-1918 war, he was badly injured in 1916 in combat with several German planes in the vicinity of Verdun and died shortly after.
On the monument is inscribed "Edifié sous l’égide des dix membres d’un comité privé organisateur d’un meeting aérien à Bannalec le 31 aout 1930 avec le reliquat de cette fête complété par une souscription publique.
Bazin created many mascots for car bonnets ("les bouchons de radiateur") such as "Triomphe" shown here.