Florian Le Roy (8 May 1901 – 6 March 1959) was a 20th-century French journalist and writer.
Le Roy was secretary-treasurer of the Académie de Bretagne and member of the in 1941. During the Second World War, he worked as presenter for
Radio Rennes Bretagne
Radio Rennes Bretagne (in Breton: ''Radio Roazon-Breiz'') was a radio station based in Rennes, and the first station to have regular Breton language programming. However, it was not powerful enough to broadcast to the Breton-speaking western part ...
.
Selected publications
*1927: ''Bonne sœur des chemins'', prize of the
Société des gens de lettres
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*1935: ''Guénolé''
*1936: ''Les Châteaux de Bretagne'', foreword by
Alphonse de Chateaubriant, illustrations by ,
Rouen
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, Éditions H. Defontaine
*1937: ''Pays de Bretagne'', prix du tourisme Breton
*1942: « Pour une génération d'artistes », in ', article about the students of the
*1944: ''Vieux métiers bretons'', illustrations by
Mathurin Méheut
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Méheut was born into a family of artisans in Lamballe, Brittany, and ap ...
, reprint 2011,
*1946: ''L'Oiseau volage'',
Prix Cazes
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History
On , Léonard Lipp and his wife Pétronille opened ...
1947
*1948: ''En passant par la Bretagne'', illustrations by
Pierre Péron and
Xavier de Langlais
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Early career
Langlais studied art in Na ...
*1948: ''Bretagne des Saints'', illustrations by
*1950: ''La seconde mort'', Éditions de Flore -
* ''Les Côtes de Bretagne'', illustrations by Pierre Le Trividic, Éditions H. Defontaine
* ''Le Péché d'être heureux'', novel, in the monthly literary review ''Les œuvres libres'', volume 169
See also
*
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20th-century French writers
Writers from Brittany
20th-century French journalists
1901 births
People from Côtes-d'Armor
1959 deaths