Marguerite Philippe
{{Orphan|date=March 2023}}
{{Infobox person/Wikidata|fetchwikidata=ALL}}
Marguerite Philippe (Breton Marc'harid Fulup 12 August 1837 Pluzunet - 14 January 1909), was a beggar from the province of Trégor in Brittany, and a storyteller in the Breton language.
Life
She was illiterate, but endowed with a prodigious memory; she knew about 150 songs ("gwerz") and a large quantity of tales and stories of all kinds, which she had begun to learn from her parents.{{Cite web |date=2018-04-16 |title=Marc'harit Fulup, la dernière " cigale bretonne " |url=https://www.retronews.fr/education/echo-de-presse/2018/04/16/marcharit-fulup-la-derniere-cigale-bretonne |access-date=2023-03-07 |website=RetroNews - Le site de presse de la BnF |language=fr}}
She was handicapped, and she could not work with her hands.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f899xH_quaMC&dq=Marc'harid+Fulup&pg=PA773 |title=Celtic Culture: A-Celti |date=2006 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-1-85109-440-0 |page=773 |language=en}} She also earned her living by attending pilgrimages to Léon and Cornouaille, and by making pilgrimages by proxy, notably to Sainte-Anne-d'Auray or the Tro Breizh, for those who paid her.{{Cite book |last=Sébillot |first=Paul-Yves |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/44425808 |title=La Bretagne et ses traditions |date=1998 |publisher=Royer |isbn=2-908670-46-1 |location=Paris |oclc=44425808}}
On 6 November 1875, she married René Salaün.{{Cite web |title=Marguerite PHILIPPE / Marc'harid FULUP. Encyclopédie Marikavel. |url=http://marikavel.org/personnes/fulup/accueil.htm |access-date=2023-03-07 |website=marikavel.org}}
Many of the songs and tales they knew were collected by François-Marie Luzel, and published in his works.{{Cite journal |last=Boyd |first=Matthieu |year=2010 |title=The Importance of Formulaic Language in the Gwerzioù |url=https://www.academia.edu/198596 |journal=Ollodagos |issue=25 |pages=111-163}}
Legacy
Her tomb, in the cemetery of Pluzunet, was sculpted by Yves Hernot. In 1898, Ange M. Mosher, an American patron of Breton culture, commissioned a monument to her memory, in Pluzunet with Anatole Le Braz and other Breton regionalists.
Her statue, by {{ill|Morley Troman|fr}}, is located in the square of Pluzunet.{{Citation |last=Hincks |first=Rhisiart |title=Marc'harid Fulup 1857-1909 - Plûned |date=2011-08-10 |url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/bara-koukoug/6215453150/ |access-date=2023-03-07}} A street in Quimper, and a street in Lannion, is named for her. {{ill|Henri Vincenot|fr}} described Marguerite Philippe in his novel L'Œuvre de chair.