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Extract from the Paimpol Travel Guides:
Though
PAIMPOL
is an attractive town with a tangle of cobbled alleyways and fine grey-granite houses, it has lost something in its transition from working fishing port to pleasure harbour. It was once the centre of a cod and whaling fleet, which sailed to Iceland each February after being sent off with a ceremony marked by a famous
pardon
. From then until September the town would be empty of its young men. The whole area was commemorated in Pierre Loti's book,
Pcheur d'Islande
; the author, and his heroine, lived in the
place du Martray
in the centre of town.
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