Dreaming is not waiting, but seeking to achieve one’s goal against all odds, she will tell us. It is the strength of the mind that makes one move forward in life, gain ground, fight, struggle against the elements and against wind and tide, this is the Leitmotif of this Breton woman with a strong character.

Her life is a succession of challenges where every day, she goes back to the loom, and wipes her slate clean for a new exercise tirelessly to convince.

She thinks that in reality, there is no irrefutable truth, there are only certainties, and when this one turns out to be unfounded, she forges another one and lock ourselves into it against others, for the good of all. Perseverance, among these men, is a shipwreck whose salvation rests on stubbornness, and not on providence, as he might sometimes think.

There are those who give up, and others who revise their copy, so for a woman’s heart that continues to beat the measure for ever greater challenges, she must plunge her arm into failure, for her survival.

Here is an exceptional woman who has just received the “OBE*”: at the height of the honor that the British government grants her. This word “honor” was on the lips of all the members of the British Chamber of Commerce in France, because everyone knows what it is. Honor, for her, is a spur for virtue, not a stirrup for pride. Congratulations Catherine Le Yaouanc for what you are.

FM

*Officer of the British Empire