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* Albert Le Grand *

Bertrand d'Argentré Bertrand d'Argentré (or Argentraeus) (19 May 1519 in Vitré, Ille-et-Vilaine – 13 February 1590) was a Breton jurist and historian. Argentraeus was born the son of Pierre d'Argentré, seneschal of Rennes, and the nephew of historian Pierre L ...

Guy Autret de Missirien Guy Autret de Missirien, Lord of Missirien, Lesergué, Kergoz, etc., was a French historian and genealogist born around 1599 in Goulien and died in Paris on 3 April 1660. He was the second son of Yves Autret, Lord of Lesoualc'h, etc. and Marie ...

Octave-Louis Aubert Octave-Louis Aubert, (8 January 1870 Paris – 14 January 1950 Saint-Brieuc) was a French editor and writer associated with Breton nationalism. Born in Paris, Aubert came to Brittany in 1893 when he got a job as assistant editor of the journal ' ...

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* Erwan Berthou * Gwilherm Berthou *

Theodore Botrel Theodore may refer to: Places * Theodore, Alabama, United States * Theodore, Australian Capital Territory * Theodore, Queensland, a town in the Shire of Banana, Australia * Theodore, Saskatchewan, Canada * Theodore Reservoir, a lake in Saskatche ...

* Anatole Le Braz *

Yann Brekilien Jean Sicard (11 December 1920, Paris – 12 March 2009), known as Yann Brekilien, was a Brittany, Breton writer. Fighting in the French Resistance from 1941, he founded a secret journal with the Dupouy brothers and the sons of the bâtonnier Arrighi ...

* Fañch Broudig

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* François-René de Chateaubriand * Tristan Corbière, French language poet *

Jeanne Coroller-Danio Jeanne Coroller-Danio (25 May 1892 in Mordelles – 13 July 1944 in Penguily) was a Breton nationalist and writer. She is also known as Jeanne Coroller (her maiden name) and Jeanne Chassin du Guerny (her married name). Her best-known pen-name was D ...

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*Reun ar C'halan, also known as René Galand

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* Emile Danoën *

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, Fr ...

Jean-Marie Déguignet Jean-Marie Déguignet (19 July 1834 – 29 August 1905) was a Brittany, Breton soldier, farmer, salesman, shopkeeper, and writer who is best known for his memoirs illuminating the life of the rural poor of 19th-century France. Life Déguignet ...

* Pêr Denez, Breton language novelist * Youenn Drezen *

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 dep ...

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* Fañch Eliès better known as Abeozen

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* François Falc'hun

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* René Galand * Xavier Grall * Jules Gros * Eugène Guillevic * Louis Guilloux *

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 ( ...

, Breton language poet

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* Per Jakez Helias, Breton language poet * Roparz Hemon, Breton language poet * Loeiz Herrieu *

Théodore Hersart de la Villemarqué Théodore is the French version of the masculine given name Theodore. Given name * Théodore Caruelle d'Aligny (1798–1871), French landscape painter and engraver *Théodore Anne (1892–1917), French playwright, librettist, and novelist * Théod ...

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Alfred Jarry Alfred Jarry (; 8 September 1873 – 1 November 1907) was a French symbolist writer who is best known for his play ''Ubu Roi'' (1896). He also coined the term and philosophical concept of 'pataphysics. Jarry was born in Laval, Mayenne, France, ...

Job Jaffré Joseph-Marie Jaffré, better known as Job Jaffré (May 6, 1906 - March 12, 1986), was a French journalist and Breton nationalist. He also published under pseudonyms, most notably as Jos Pempoull. Jaffré was born in Berné, Morbihan. His journali ...

* François Jaffrennou * Gerard Jaffrès

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Yann-Ber Kalloc'h Yann-Ber Kalloc'h (born ''Jean-Pierre Calloc'h'' in French; 21 July 1888 – 10 April 1917) was a Breton war poet who wrote in both Breton and French. Life Yann-Ber Kalloc'h was born on the island of Groix, near Lorient, on July 24, 1888. He w ...

* Corentin Louis Kervran

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* Célestin Lainé (Neven an Henaff) * Yves Lainé * Xavier de Langlais (Langleiz) * Pierre Le Baud *

Morvan Lebesque Morvan Lebesque (January 11, 1911 in Nantes, France – 4 July 1970 in Brazil), was the Breton language name of Maurice Lebesque, a Breton nationalist activist and French journalist. Lebesque was born in Nantes, at the Quai Barbin (now dock Barbus ...

* Charles Le Goffic *

Camille Le Mercier d'Erm Camille Le Mercier d'Erm (1888 in Rennes - 1978 in Dinard) was a French poet, historian and Breton nationalist. He later adopted the neo-Bardic name Kammermor. He is also known as Kamil Ar Merser 'Erm, the Breton language form of his name. His work ...

* François-Marie Luzel

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* Emile Masson * Olier Mordrel *

Françoise Morvan Françoise Morvan (born 1958 in Rostrenen, Côtes-d'Armor) is a French writer who specialises in Breton history and culture. She studied literature in Colombes, then at the Sorbonne. Her doctoral thesis was in French literature, discussing the w ...

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* Jean-Marie Perrot

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Henri Queffélec Henri Queffélec (29 January 1910 – 13 January 1992) was a French writer and screenwriter. Biography He studied at the lycée Louis-le-Grand and then the École normale supérieure. He obtained the "agrégation de lettres" in 1934. He is cons ...

Yann Queffélec Yann Queffélec (born 4 September 1949 in Paris) is a French author who won the Prix Goncourt in 1985 for his novel '' Les Noces barbares'', translated into English as '' The Wedding''. He is the former husband of the late pianist Brigitte Engerer ...

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Ernest Renan Joseph Ernest Renan (; 27 February 18232 October 1892) was a French Orientalist and Semitic scholar, expert of Semitic languages and civilizations, historian of religion, philologist, philosopher, biblical scholar, and critic. He wrote influe ...

* Armand Robin * Guy Ropartz *

Louis Napoleon Le Roux Louis Napoléon Le Roux (29 May 1890 – 5 August 1944) was a Breton nationalist. He is also known as Loeiz-Napoleon Ar Rouz in the Breton language. Le Roux was born at Pleudaniel, Brittany, France, son of a miller. in a family of eight chi ...

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* Guillaume de Saint-André * Victor Segalen

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* Louis Tiercelin

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Erwan Vallerie Erwan Vallerie (1944 – 10 February 2022) was a French Breton nationalist and cultural activist. Life and career Born in France, Vallerie worked as an economist when he founded the monthly periodical Sav Breizh with Yann Choucq (Debout Bretagne, ...

Jules Verne Jules Gabriel Verne (;''Longman Pronunciation Dictionary''. ; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the ''Voyages extraor ...

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