Screening: “The Little Gravel Stones of Saint-Pierre,” by Laurent Giraudineau

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A Breton writer sets out on the trail of his ancestor on the other side of the Atlantic. He will meet his son there, a naturalist guide in Saint-Pierre-and-Miquelon, and pass on the fruit of his investigation in Brittany. From Brest to Saint-Malo, he has found photographs, archival documents, a few texts and songs from the era; proof that their ancestor was among the children sent to dry cod in the worst conditions. Several tens of thousands of little Bretons were treated as slaves of the…