Morlaix

I get some stick for this because was it last year? I think it was last year.

We went to Morlaix, which is down the western end of Brittany.

And we went to Roscoff, home of the red Roscoff onions.

And there was a museum to the onion johnny.

How, after some further but slighter peril, Charles Stuart was guided, by other devoted friends, by way of Ballinder and Achnagarry to the Castle of Lochiel and the longed-for sea-coast—one can read of this for himself.

There rode at anchor—oh, sight of inexpressible comfort!—the two French vessels, Le Heureux and La Princesse de Conti, sent by the exiled Chevalier from Morlaix harbor, France, and waiting until the fugitive's approach so frequently despaired of.

In Le Heureux, on the night of September 20, 1746, Charles Stuart embarked for France, with one hundred and thirty other exiled and beggared followers.

From its deck, nine days later, did the unfortunate heir to the throne of the Stuarts step up the beach at Roscoff, near Morlaix, able, for the first time in weary months, to draw a free breath and look about him in perfect safety; his hopes of a kingdom broken at his back like egg-shells.

But history, which seldom has space for such trifles, does not state that ever at the Prince's side, upon sea or land, from the hour of his departure from Glenmoriston and its outlaws, there was a Highland lad toward whom the exile showed a quiet care and affection never for an instant relaxed, and of a sort that won the notice of all who encountered them.

Little was said of his antecedents or his story.

Near Pont-L'Abbé, protesters seized and burned ballot boxes.

Then roughly 5,000 farmers entered Morlaix and occupied the subprefecture, which is the local embodiment of the French state.

Uh, Gervenoch and another leader, Marcel Young, were arrested, and when they went on trial, thousands gathered in Morlaix, and contemporary reporting described, uh, there being an enormous crowd celebrating when the men were acquitted.

Hmm.

Nothing says routine vegetable marketing discussion like burning the instruments of democracy.