Jean-Yves Veillard (19 February 1939 – 25 March 2020) was a French historian.

Biography

Veillard, alongside

Donatien Laurent Donatien Laurent (27 September 1935 – 25 March 2020) was a French musicologist and linguist. Biography Donatien was born in Belfort to polytechnician Pierre Laurent and a musician mother from Nantes. During his secondary education in Paris, he ...

and

Alan Stivell Alan Stivell (; born Alan Cochevelou on 6 January 1944) is a French, Breton and Celtic musician and singer, songwriter, recording artist, and master of the Celtic harp. From the early 1970s, he revived global interest in the Celtic (specifically ...

was one of the Bleimor Scouts. A historian and researcher, Veillard was the author of a thesis on

Rennes Rennes (; br, Roazhon ; Gallo: ''Resnn''; ) is a city in the east of Brittany in northwestern France at the confluence of the Ille and the Vilaine. Rennes is the prefecture of the region of Brittany, as well as the Ille-et-Vilaine department ...

during the 19th century. He was one of the founding members of the

Breton Democratic Union Breton Democratic Union (french: Union démocratique bretonne, br, Unvaniezh Demokratel Breizh, UDB) is a Breton nationalist, autonomist, and regionalist political party in Brittany (''Bretagne administrée'') and Loire-Atlantique. The UDB adv ...

in 1964. He was Curator of the

Musée de Bretagne The Brittany Museum () is a social history museum located in the Champs Libres cultural centre of Rennes, France. Originally structured as an archeology and ethnology museum, it is now a museum regional history and society – focusing on the ...

rom 1967 to 2000 and opened the exhibition on

Seiz Breur Seiz Breur was an artistic movement founded in 1923 in Brittany. Although it adopted the symbolic name ''seiz breur'', meaning ''seven brothers'' in the Breton language, this did not refer to the number of members, but to the title of a folk-story. ...

. Jean-Yves Veillard died on 25 March 2020 at the age of 81.

Works

*''Celtes et Armorique'' (1971) *''Catalogue des intailles et camées de la collection du président de Robien'' (1972) *''Rennes au xixe siècle : architectes, urbanisme et architecture'' (1978) *''Études sur la presse en Bretagne aux xixe et xxe siècles'' (1981) *''Rennes naguère : 1850–1939'' (1981) *''L’Ecomusée du pays de Rennes'' (1991) *''Promenades à Rennes. Le xixe siècle'' (1991) *''L’affaire Dreyfus et l’opinion publique en France et à l’étranger'' (1995) *''Dictionnaire du patrimoine breton'' (2000) *''Ar Seiz Breur 1923–1947, la création bretonne entre tradition et modernité'' (2000) *''Monsieur le "conservateur". Musées et combats culturels en Bretagne au temps de Yann-Cheun Veillard'' (2001) *''Dictionnaire du patrimoine rennais'' (2004) *''Ar Seiz Breur 1923–1947, la création bretonne entre tradition et modernité'' (2007)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Veillard, Jean-Yves 1939 births 2020 deaths 20th-century French historians 21st-century French historians 21st-century French male writers 20th-century French male writers Writers from Rennes