Last modified: 2007-02-08 by ivan sache
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The municipality of Erquy (c. 3,500 inhabitants) is a small sea resort and fishing port, especially involved in scallop fishing as other ports in the St. Brieuc Bay, located on the Côte d'Emeraude (EmeraldCoast).
Its inhabitants are called Reginéens, because Erquy was
supposed, probably wrongly, to have been built on the site of the
Gallo-Roman city of Reginea.
In Erquy can be seen a very rare example of preserved cannonball kiln. Such kilns were parts of the defense system established by Vauban on the French coasts. The kiln allowed to heat the cannonballs before firing the cannon, so that the cannonballs could set fire to the English vessels. Interestingly, the memory of such heated cannonballs has been preserved in the widely used expression tirer à boulets rouges sur quelqu'un, litt. "firing someone with red cannonballs" (red because of their temperature), which could be translated, according to Robert-Collins lexicon, as "to lay into somebody tooth and nail".
Ivan Sache, 16 June 1998
According to P. Rault (Les drapeaux bretons de 1188 à nos jours) [rau98], the flag of Erquy is white with the municipal arms, "vert a mermaid or a chief ermine".
Ivan Sache, 16 June 1998
![[CV Erquy]](../images/f/fr-22~eq.gif)
Burgee of CVE - Image by Ivan Sache, 13 May 2001
The burgee of Club de Voile d'Erquy (CVE) is shown on the CVE website (page no longer online) as red with two black triangles along the hoist and a white fimbriation between the black and red parts. A white E letter is placed in the upper triangle.
Ivan Sache, 13 May 2001