National audienceThe lithostratigraphy and biostratigraphy of a three back-barrier sediment sequences in Bay of Brest are examined to reconstruct the holocene sea-level history in the western part of Brittany. A salt-marsh foraminifera-based transfer function is used to assess palaeo-sea-level positions with a precision of ± 0.51 m. The transfer function is applied to foraminiferal assemblages from four cores, providing 16 news sea-level index points from western Brittany. Our data suggest a relative stability of relative sea-level between 6250 and 5500 cal. yr BP, followed by a period of sea-level rise (about 2 mm/yr) between 5500 and 3200 cal.yr BP. A decrease of relative sea-level with a magnitude of 2 m is suspected between 3200 and 280...