Job de Roincé (Born ''Joseph Boreau de Roincé'', 18 April 1896,

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- 30 December 1981), was a French journalist and writer, and also one of the founding figures of Breton nationalism.

Biography

Born in

in 1896, he attended school in

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(

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). As a teenager, he participated in the birth of ''

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'', the movement of abbot Jean-Marie Perrot. After the

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, he helped to create the Group of Young Bretons in 1919 with other members of Action Française like

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. This movement was the origin of the separatist faction

Breiz Atao ''Breiz Atao'' (also ''Breizh Atao'') (in Breton ''Brittany For Ever'' cf. Breizh atav), was a Breton nationalist journal in the mid-twentieth century. It was written in French, and has always been considered as a French nationalist journal by t ...

, which he joined, but quickly left, as their radical views were incompatible with his own conservatism. However he later joined the

Breton National Party The Breton National Party (French ''Parti National Breton'', Breton ''Strollad Broadel Breizh'') was a nationalist party in Brittany that existed from 1931 to 1944. The party was disbanded after the liberation of France in World War II, because of ...

, advocating for a royalist position. From a professional point of view, he started his career as a journalist with the journal ''Le Nouvelliste de Rennes''. Between 1925 and 1945, he worked for ''Courrier de la Mayenne''. From 1950, he lived in

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 ...

as the cartoon editor of ''Nouvelles de Bretagne''. In all, he was an important literary activist, crucial in the regionalist politics and history of the west of France.

Publications

Cartoons

* ''La belle histoire de la Duchesse en sabots. Bande dessinée.'' Series : Collection « '' À la française'' » n° 2. Cartoonist :

Pierre Rousseau Pierre Jean-Baptiste Rousseau (11 February 1905 – 1983) was a French essayist, epistemologist, astronomer and journalist who authored numerous popular science essays and articles. He helped promote hard science to the general public and advocat ...

. Director : Job de Roincé. 1942 * ''La belle histoire de

Jean Chouan Jean Chouan () was the nom de guerre of the Frenchman, Jean Cottereau, who was born in Saint-Berthevin, near Laval, in the department of Mayenne on 30 October 1757 and died 18 July 1794 in Olivet, Mayenne. He was a counter-revolutionary, an ...

. Bande dessinée.'' Series : Collection « '' À la française'' » n° 3. Cartoonist:

. Director: Job de Roincé. 1942 * ''La Belle histoire de Surcouf'' Artistic and literary edition - Paris. 1942. Coll. A la française n°5 * ''

Jacques Cartier Jacques Cartier ( , also , , ; br, Jakez Karter; 31 December 14911 September 1557) was a French-Breton maritime explorer for France. Jacques Cartier was the first European to describe and map the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the shores of th ...

, le Christophe Colomb Breton.'' Artistic and literary edition - Paris. 1942. Coll. A la française n°6 * ''Le mousse de la Bellecordière '' Artistic and literary edition 1943. Coll.A la française * ''Le mystère du château du Taureau''. Ololé Edition - Landerneau. Breton cultural propaganda for youth edition : Urz Goanag Breiz. Containing : "La Peste et le laboureur ; Une Affaire grave ; Le Miracle de la ruche ; L'Ermite qui n'avait plus de feu ; Les Moines de Cuburien". 1943. * ''Les pirates de l'île aux moines, tomes 1 et 2''. Art: Claudel / Written: Job de Roincé. 1946, 1947.

Books

* ''Double victoire'', (Novel), Mayenne. 1931. * ''Un drame au large Pièce en 3 actes'' . La Voix de l'Ouest - Rennes. 1945. * ''Au Pays de Léon, son histoire, ses légendes, ses pardons'',

, H. Riou-Reuzé, 1946. My Books Collection. * ''Ici Rennes'', Rennes, Riou-Reuzé, 1948. History * ''Les Heures glorieuses du 41e R.I.'' X 1965, Complete history of the Fourth Republic from its early days. Further chapters deal with the conquest of

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and the wars of 1914-1918 and 1939-1945. * ''Charleroi 1914'',

, Imprimerie Les Nouvelles, 1967 * ''Le Livre de l'Armistice : l'Allemagne à Genoux (Novembre 1918)'', Imprimerie Les Nouvelles,

, 1968. * ''La Cuisine rustique. Bretagne,

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'', Forcalquier, Morel, 1970. Collaboration with Yvonne Meynier. * ''La Bretagne malade de la république'', Rennes, imprimerie ''Les Nouvelles'', 1971. * ''Le colonel Armand, marquis de la Rouërie'', Lanore, Paris, 1975. * ''Le drame de

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(1795).'' Imprimerie ' Les nouvelles ' à Rennes, 1976. * ''Histoire de Chouans'', Fernand Lanore, 1978. * ''Mémorial des martyrs d' Avrillé.'' Rennes, Les nouvelles, 1979. * ''Figures de

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'', Fernand Lanore, Paris, 1980. {{DEFAULTSORT:Roince, Job de 1896 births 1981 deaths People from Maine-et-Loire Breton National Party politicians Writers from Brittany French male non-fiction writers Winners of the Prix Broquette-Gonin (literature) 20th-century French journalists 20th-century French male writers