 A "mevel bras" (majordomo) was the most important Breton farm worker, a man who might enjoy many privileges, but he was not of the landowning class and it was inconceivable in the old Brittany that he could aspire to marry into it.However, the "mevel" of the play, Jakez Mano, contrives by a complicated means to marry his master's daughter, God Konan.The fact that he can not only think of this but even achieve it is seen as proof that the old Brittany, in which marriages were decided by social status and by the ownership of land, is dying.