The sign on the cross (from 1802) says:
"En ces lieux se réunissaient les Acadiens. Arrivés en Belle-île-en-Mer en 1765".
(On this location the Acadians gathered. They arrived on Belle-Ile-en-Mer in 1765).

The French Acadians came from a former French territory in Northeast North America (now parts
of Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and New England). When the British took over the area after
several wars with the French the Acadians were finally banned in 1755 during a new war.
Many of them went to the -then French- Louisiana, where they are now known as 'Cajuns'.
And in 1765 some 78 Acadian families (355 people) came back to Belle-Île-en-Mer.
Farmers were welcome here after the island had been partially destroyed by English occupation.
Many Acadians stayed on the island, so even today many islanders have Acadian roots.