Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1904 — Fascination of Finistere. [ARTICLE]

Fascination of Finistere.

To understand the intense attraction which this bit of Flnlstere has for the artist, the poignant seduction which year after year brings back to Its entrance such painters as Lucien Simon and Andre Dauchec, you must add a description of the country itself to that of its Inhabitants. You must Imagine yourself under that immense expanse of sky, swept by great clouds pierced at every other moment with arrows of sunshine; on that flat stretch of soil, tinted with the entire gamut of grays, and with the intense black of the Bigoudine costume accented by the gold of Its embroideries aud the violence of color In its ribbons and aprons, to all of which nature responds only with the pale splendor of her velvet fields reddened by the sea breezes, the blond enamel of the mosses on the asben-col-ord rocks, and the mirror of the sleeping marshes, in which are reflected all the. changing hours of the day.—Century.