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List Of Breton Authors
__NOTOC__ This list shows some authors from Brittany. A * Albert Le Grand * Bertrand d'Argentré * Guy Autret de Missirien * Octave-Louis Aubert B *Erwan Berthou *Gwilherm Berthou * Theodore Botrel *Anatole Le Braz * Yann Brekilien * Fañch Broudig C *François-René de Chateaubriand *Tristan Corbière, French language poet * Jeanne Coroller-Danio C'H *Reun ar C'halan, also known as René Galand D * Emile Danoën * François Debeauvais * Jean-Marie Déguignet * Pêr Denez, Breton language novelist *Youenn Drezen * Jean Dupuis (En Neue) E * Fañch Eliès better known as Abeozen F *François Falc'hun G *René Galand *Xavier Grall *Jules Gros * Eugène Guillevic * Louis Guilloux * Youenn Gwernig, Breton language poet H * Per Jakez Helias, Breton language poet *Roparz Hemon, Breton language poet *Loeiz Herrieu * Théodore Hersart de la Villemarqué ( Kervarker) J * Alfred Jarry * Job Jaffré *François Jaffrennou * Gerard Jaffrès K * Yann-Ber Kalloc'h * Corentin Louis Kervr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Authors
An author is the writer of a book, article, play, mostly written work. A broader definition of the word "author" states: "''An author is "the person who originated or gave existence to anything" and whose authorship determines responsibility for what was created''." Typically, the first owner of a copyright is the person who created the work, i.e. the author. If more than one person created the work (i.e., multiple authors), then a case of joint authorship takes place. The copyright laws are have minor differences in various jurisdictions across the United States. The United States Copyright Office, for example, defines copyright as "a form of protection provided by the laws of the United States (title 17, U.S. Code) to authors of 'original works of authorship.'" Legal significance of authorship Holding the title of "author" over any "literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, rcertain other intellectual works" gives rights to this person, the owner of the copyright, especially t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Debeauvais
François Debeauvais (1902 in Rennes – 20 March 1944, Colmar) was a Breton nationalism, Breton nationalist and wartime collaborator with Nazi Germany. His name is also spelled in many "Breton" variants: François Debauvais, Fransez Debeauvais, Fransez Debauvais, Fañch Debeauvais, Fañch Debauvais, Fañch deb. Breiz Atao Debeauvais was the son of a gardener from Le Pertre. Initially he worked as a pharmacist, but soon became an activist for Breton nationalism. He was associated with the founding of Breiz Atao (Brittany Forever), the Breton nationalist journal. He was named president of ''Unvaniez Yaounkiz Breiz'', the Breton nationalist youth wing, in 1920. He quickly rose within the movement, becoming associated with the faction of Yann Bricler, and Olier Mordrel. He took part in ''Breiz Ataos Pan-Celtic Congress in Quimper, Finistère, Quimper in 1924, with Yann Sohier, Youenn Drezen, Jakez Riou, Abeozen and Marcel Guieysse. According to the memoirs of his wife Anna Youenou (a f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roparz Hemon
Louis-Paul Némo (18 November 1900 – 29 June 1978), better known by the pseudonym Roparz Hemon, was a Breton author and scholar of Breton expression. He was the author of numerous dictionaries, grammars, poems and short stories. He also founded ''Gwalarn'', a literary journal in Breton where many young authors published their first writings during the 1920s and 1930s. Life and works Surprisingly, Roparz Hemon, who was born as Louis Nemo in Brest, was not a native speaker of the Breton language. His father, Eugène Nemo, was born illegitimately, but was discreetly provided for by his biological father, and went on to become both a mechanical engineer and an officer in the French Navy. His mother, Julie Foricher, was a girl's school teacher. Although Hemon's Foricher grandparents were native Breton speakers, they had both chosen to speak only French to their children and grandchildren. By the time of Hemon's birth on 18 November, 1900, the family was upper middle class. Despit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Youenn Gwernig
Youenn Gwernig (10 May 1925 – 29 August 2006; born in Scaër, Douarnenez) was a Breton-American poet, writer and singer. He was a painter, sculptor and a TV presenter on the French channel France 3. He was born in 1925 in the town of Scaër (Brittany). He moved to the United States in the late 1950s and became an American citizen. He returned to Brittany in the late 60s. Influenced by traditional Breton culture, American pop culture and the Beat Generation he knew through his friendship with Jack Kerouac, he wrote poetry and songs in Breton and English. Life He was born in 1925, into a traditional Breton family, in Scaër. He first worked as a wood sculptor. In the early 1950s he met the Breton poet and singer Glenmor, with whom he set a music band called Breizh a gan ("Brittany sings" in Breton language) which was the first cultural Breton band after World War II. This band set an operetta called ''Genovefa'' ("Genevieve" in Breton). He went to the US in 1957 because of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Guilloux
Louis Guilloux (15 January 1899 – 14 October 1980) was a French writer born in Saint-Brieuc, Brittany, where he lived throughout his life. He is known for his Social Realist novels describing working class life and political struggles in the mid-twentieth century. His best-known book is '' Le Sang noir'' (Blood Dark), which has been described as a "prefiguration of Sartre's '' La Nausée''." Life and work Guilloux's father was a shoemaker and socialist activist, a background that Guilloux describes in his first book ''La Maison du Peuple'' (The House of the People), which centres on the struggles of a shoemaker called Quéré as seen through the eyes of his young son. The story describes how Quéré's idealistic political activism threatens his small business as he loses custom by pushing against ingrained conservatism. Nevertheless, he manages to build self-help cooperatives on the model of Proudhonism.Walter D. Redfern, "Political Novel and Art of Simplicity: Louis Guilloux" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugène Guillevic
Eugène Guillevic ( Carnac, Morbihan, France, August 5, 1907 Carnac – March 19, 1997 Paris) () was a French poet. Professionally, he went by the single name ''Guillevic''. Life He was born in the rocky landscape and marine environment of Brittany. His father, a sailor, was a policeman and took him to Jeumont ( Nord) in 1909, Saint-Jean-Brévelay (Morbihan) in 1912, and Ferrette (Haut-Rhin) in 1919. After a BA in mathematics, he was placed by the exams of 1926, in the Administration of Registration (Alsace, Ardennes). Appointed in 1935 to Paris as senior editor at the Directorate General at the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs, he was assigned in 1942 to control the economy. He was from 1945 to 1947 in the Cabinets of Ministers Francis Billoux (National Economy) and Charles Tillon (Reconstruction). In 1947 after the ouster of Communist ministers, he returned to the Inspector General of Economics, where his work included studies of the economy and planning, until ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jules Gros
Jules Marcel Gros (2 February 1890 – 25 December 1992) was a Breton linguist specializing in the Breton language. He was born in Paris. Gros' studies began very early in the twentieth century, from his grandmother and other people in his village who were still unilingual Breton speakers. Gros authored ''Stylistique Trégorroise'' and various dictionaries of Breton. His books were used by a generation of students, and continue to be important as reference works cataloguing the speech patterns of the Breton language. Gros died on 25 December 1992 in Trédrez-Locquémeau. See also * Celtic languages * Brittonic languages The Brittonic languages (also Brythonic or British Celtic; cy, ieithoedd Brythonaidd/Prydeinig; kw, yethow brythonek/predennek; br, yezhoù predenek) form one of the two branches of the Insular Celtic language family; the other is Goidelic. ... References External links * Linguists from France 1890 births 1992 deaths Linguists of Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xavier Grall
Xavier Grall (1930–1981) was a journalist and poet from Brittany, France, who was a strong advocate of Breton nationalism during the Emsav, Third Emsav. His work glorifies a mystical Brittany. Early career Xavier Grall was born in Landivisiau in Finistère, but moved to Paris. He worked as a journalist for Catholic publications, including the journals ''La Vie (magazine), La Vie catholique'', of which he was editor, and ''Témoignage chrétien''. He also wrote for ''Le Monde'' and ''Bretagne''. Bretonism Grall rediscovered his Breton identity in the 1970s, leaving Paris permanently in 1973, returning to Brittany to live at Bossulan Farm in Nizon, just outside Pont-Aven. Grall's reassertion of Breton identity followed a period of disillusionment with France following the Algerian War. He later wrote that the war undermined his belief in the idea of France: I had done the Algerian War, in the wolfish sun my eyes were opened. Heartbreaking revelation. From Djebel Amour [in Algeri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Falc'hun
François Falc'hun (20 April 1901 – 13 January 1991) was a French linguist known for his theories about the origin of the Breton language. He was also an ordained Canon in the Catholic clergy. Falc'hun was professor at the Universities of Rennes and Brest. Contrary to the mainstream opinion of linguists, Falc'hun took the view that Breton was derived from the Gaulish form of Continental Celtic, rather than from the Brythonic Celtic that were introduced by British migrants. He was accused of using linguistics to promote a French nationalist political agenda. Theories Falc'hun's early work included an edition of the writings of Jean-Marie Perrot. He created a particular Breton orthography (known as "university" orthography) which was intended to replace the spelling system known as "Peurunvan", used from 1911 to 1941. His spelling, which does not use "zh", also abandons the Breton "c'h" convention, introduced in the seventeenth century, and which is even used in the official Fren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abeozen
François Eliès, born Fañch Eliès Garzanti p. 1 and better known by the pseudonym Abeozen, (1896 Saint-Sauveur, Finistère – 1963 La Baule) was a Breton nationalist, novelist and dramatist who wrote in the Breton language. Abeozen was also a noted scholar of the Welsh language. Abeozen started contributing to the Breton literary journal ''Gwalarn'' in 1925. He worked as a teacher in Saint-Brieuc from 1927 to 1940 and founded the local branch of the communist '' Secours Rouge'' organization. During the German occupation of France, he joined Roparz Hemon at the newly founded Radio Rennes Bretagne and wrote for ''La Bretagne'', ''L'Heure Bretonne'' and '' Arvor''. He was also a member of Seiz Breur and the Institut celtique de Bretagne. As France was liberated Abeozen, like many Breton nationalists, was arrested for collaborating with the German occupants and spent fourteen months in prison. (See also Breton nationalism and World War II for the political background.) He was fur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Dupuis
Jean Dupuis (7 December 1829, Saint-Just-la-Pendue, France – 28 November 1912, Monaco) was a French trader and explorer. In Vietnamese royal records, he was referred as ''Đồ Phổ Nghĩa''. Biography Dupuis was educated at Tarare (Rhône department). In 1858 he went to Egypt as a trader, and from thence to China. His trading journeys took him into many previously unexplored parts of southern China, and in 1871–2 his efforts opened up the Red River to commerce. In 1873 he was involved in a dispute with the Vietnamese authorities for trading weapons for goods on the Red River.Jean DupuisIl etait un Tonkin forez-info.com, 22 février 2016. He was one of those people who persuaded the French to try and establish a base in Vietnam. The French explorer Francis Garnier came down on the request of the governor of Cochin China to solve the dispute; Garnier invaded the Tonkin area and captured its capital, Hanoi. The foundations of the French possessions in Tongking were thereby lai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
