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3 unusual facts about Plogoff


Henri Honoré d'Estienne d'Orves

On 21 December 1940, he set sail from Newlyn to Plogoff in Brittany on a fishing boat, the Marie-Louise, along with his 20-year-old radio operator Alfred Gaessler, a German-speaking Alsatian, codenamed Georges Marty.

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In the early 1970s, the French state power company, EDF decided to establish a production's nuclear power plant in Brittany.

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For 45 days, the riot police (CRS), the military police (gendarmerie) and some parachutists (EPIGN) guarded the mairies annexes while coming under attack from the protesters.


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Consequently, a Paimpolaisean schooner named the Surprise, struck herself onto the rocks near the town Plogoff.


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