ABSTRACT
This chapter talks about a composer, scientist, inventor, philosopher and Rear-Admiral Jean Cras was a French musician. But this French musician was also Proper Breton. The provinces, especially Brittany, and even more so Jean Cras' native Finistere, remained fiercely loyal to Vatican doctrine. Faith, for Jean Cras, formed the foundation and core of man's existence. Cras' correspondence and journals attest amply to his unflinching trust in God and in the limitless potential of faith as the genetrix of strength and goodness. Cras' protestation was not only religiously founded but also political, and directed against state-directed provocations against the faithful. Cras' integrity and idealism unto art remained as unflinching as his religious convictions. Cras' profound knowledge of the Bible reflected an understanding of how men of letters relied upon biblical legends, ergo, biblical lessons, in the conception, evolution and incarnation of their own ideas.
