Jean Sicard (11 December 1920,
Paris
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– 12 March 2009), known as Yann Brekilien, was a
Breton
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*anything associated with Brittany, and generally
** Breton people
** Breton language, a Southwestern Brittonic Celtic language of the Indo-European language family, spoken in Brittany
** Breton (horse), a breed
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writer. Fighting in the
French Resistance
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from 1941, he founded a secret journal with the Dupouy brothers and the sons of the bâtonnier Arrighi. In 1942, he entered the Ceux de la Résistance (CDLR) and the following year joined the
maquis
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Resistance groups
* Maquis (World War II), predominantly rural guerrilla bands of the French Resistance
* Spanish Maquis, guerrillas who fought against Francoist Spain in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War
* The network ...
to escape the
STO
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Businesses and organizations Government
* Science & Technology Organization, a NATO organization
* ''Service du travail obligatoire'', French men & women between certain ages deported to Germany during WWII to work as slave la ...
, hiding at
Elliant
Elliant (; br, Eliant) is a commune in the Finistère department and administrative region of Brittany in north-western France. It lies west of Quimper.
Population
In French the inhabitants of Elliant are known as ''Elliantais''.
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, commanding an
FFI section and fighting in the battles of summer 1945. After the war he worked as a magistrate as well as a prolific author, becoming founder and honorary president of the association des écrivains Bretons.
Brekilien died on 12 March 2009, at the age of 88.
References
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1920 births
2009 deaths
Writers from Paris
Writers from Brittany
French Resistance members
French male writers
20th-century French male writers