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Brittany Brittany (; french: link=no, Bretagne ; br, Breizh, or ; Gallo: ''Bertaèyn'' ) is a peninsula, historical country and cultural area in the west of modern France, covering the western part of what was known as Armorica during the period ...

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* Albert Le Grand * Bertrand d'Argentré * Guy Autret de Missirien * Octave-Louis Aubert

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Erwan Berthou Erwan Berthou (4 September 1861 – 30 January 1933) was a French and Breton language poet, writer and neo-Druidic bard. His name is also spelled Erwan Bertou and Yves Berthou. He was born in Pleubian, Côtes-d'Armor. He studied at the small sem ...

Gwilherm Berthou Gwilherm Berthou (10 May 1908, Paimpol – 14 March 1951, Rennes) was a Breton nationalist and neo-Druidic bardic poet. He was a member of the Breton artistic movement Seiz Breur. Terrorism Berthou was born in Paimpol, Côtes-d'Armor. He trai ...

* Theodore Botrel *

Anatole Le Braz Anatole le Braz, the "Bard of Brittany" (2 April 1859 – 20 March 1926), was a Breton poet, folklore collector and translator. He was highly regarded amongst both European and American scholars, and known for his warmth and charm. Biography Le B ...

* Yann Brekilien * Fañch Broudig

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François-René de Chateaubriand François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand (4 September 1768 – 4 July 1848) was a French writer, politician, diplomat and historian who had a notable influence on French literature of the nineteenth century. Descended from an old aristocrati ...

Tristan Corbière Tristan Corbière (18 July 1845 – 1 March 1875), born Édouard-Joachim Corbière, was a French poet born in Coat-Congar, Ploujean (now part of Morlaix) in Brittany, where he lived most of his life before dying of tuberculosis at the age of 29 ...

, French language poet * Jeanne Coroller-Danio

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*Reun ar C'halan, also known as

René Galand René Marie Galand (Reun ar C'halan in Breton) (January 27, 1923 - May 28, 2017) was a writer and Professor of French. He was born in Châteauneuf-du-Faou in Brittany. Biography René Galand was born on January 27, 1923, in Châteauneuf-du-Fao ...

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* Emile Danoën * François Debeauvais * Jean-Marie Déguignet * Pêr Denez, Breton language novelist *

Youenn Drezen Youenn Drezen (14 September 1899 – 17 February 1972) is the Breton language name of Yves Le Drézen, a Breton nationalist writer and activist. He is also known as Corentin Cariou and Tin Gariou. Youth He was born in Pont-l'Abbé, Finistère ...

* Jean Dupuis (En Neue)

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* Fañch Eliès better known as Abeozen

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François Falc'hun François Falc'hun (20 April 1901 – 13 January 1991) was a French linguist known for his theories about the origin of the Breton language. He was also an ordained Canon in the Catholic clergy. Falc'hun was professor at the Universities of Renn ...

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Xavier Grall Xavier Grall (1930–1981) was a journalist and poet from Brittany, France, who was a strong advocate of Breton nationalism during the Third Emsav. His work glorifies a mystical Brittany. Early career Xavier Grall was born in Landivisiau in Fi ...

Jules Gros Jules Marcel Gros (2 February 1890 – 25 December 1992) was a Breton linguist specializing in the Breton language. He was born in Paris. Gros' studies began very early in the twentieth century, from his grandmother and other people in his ...

* Eugène Guillevic * Louis Guilloux * Youenn Gwernig, Breton language poet

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* Per Jakez Helias, Breton language poet *

Roparz Hemon Louis-Paul Némo (18 November 1900 – 29 June 1978), better known by the pseudonym Roparz Hemon, was a Breton author and scholar of Breton expression. He was the author of numerous dictionaries, grammars, poems and short stories. He also fou ...

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Loeiz Herrieu Loeiz Herrieu or Louis Henrio (27 January 1879 in Lanester, then in Caudan – 22 May 1953 in Auray) was a Breton historian who wrote in his native language of Breton vannetais. The son of a farmer, he was nicknamed Er Barh Labourér ("the pea ...

* Théodore Hersart de la Villemarqué ( Kervarker)

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* Alfred Jarry * Job Jaffré *

François Jaffrennou François-Joseph-Claude Jaffrennou (15 March 1879 - 23 March 1956) was a Breton language writer and editor. He was a Breton nationalist and a neo-druid bard. He is also known as François Taldir-Jaffrennou, since he also used the bardic name Taldir ...

* Gerard Jaffrès

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* Yann-Ber Kalloc'h * Corentin Louis Kervran

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Célestin Lainé Célestin Lainé (1908–1983) was a Breton nationalist and collaborator during the Second World War who led the SS affiliated Bezen Perrot militia. His Breton language name is Neven Hénaff. He was a chemical engineer by training. After ...

(Neven an Henaff) * Yves Lainé *

Xavier de Langlais Xavier de Langlais (April 26, 1906 in Sarzeau – June 15, 1975) was a Breton painter, printmaker and writer. He usually signed his work with the name Langleiz, a Breton language version of his surname. Early career Langlais studied art in Na ...

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Pierre Le Baud Pierre Le Baud or Lebaud ( – 29 September 1505) was a French clergyman and historian known for his writings on the history of Brittany. Life Lebaud was born around 1450, probably in Saint-Ouën-des-Toits, Maine, on the borders of Brittany. His ...

* Morvan Lebesque *

Charles Le Goffic Charles Le Goffic (14 July 1863 – 12 February 1932) was a Breton poet, novelist and historian whose influence was especially strong in his native Brittany. He was a member of the Académie française. Biography Born in Lannion, northern Bri ...

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 wor ...

François-Marie Luzel François-Marie Luzel (6 June 1821 – 26 February 1895), often known by his Breton name ''Fañch an Uhel'',He signed his name as ''Francès-Mary an Uhel'' in the ''Les Chants de l'épée'' (1856), although Joseph Ollivier, in his 1943 preface to ...

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Emile Masson Emil or Emile may refer to: Literature *''Emile, or On Education'' (1762), a treatise on education by Jean-Jacques Rousseau * ''Émile'' (novel) (1827), an autobiographical novel based on Émile de Girardin's early life *''Emil and the Detective ...

Olier Mordrel Olier Mordrel (29 April 1901 – 25 October 1985) is the Breton language version of Olivier Mordrelle, a Breton nationalist and wartime collaborator with the Third Reich who founded the separatist Breton National Party. Before the war, he worked ...

* Françoise Morvan

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Jean-Marie Perrot The abbé Jean-Marie Perrot, in Breton Yann Vari Perrot (3 September 1877 in Plouarzel, Finistère – 12 December 1943 in Scrignac), was a Breton priest, Breton independentist assassinated by the Communist resistance. He was the founder of ...

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* Henri Queffélec *

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 Engere ...

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* Ernest Renan *

Armand Robin Armand Robin (January 19, 1912 – March 30, 1961) was a French poet, translator, and journalist. He joined the French Anarchist Federation in 1945, which published his ''Poèmes indésirables'' (Undesirable Poems). He authored "La fausse ...

Guy Ropartz Joseph Guy Marie Ropartz (; 15 June 1864 – 22 November 1955) was a French composer and conductor. His compositions included five symphonies, three violin sonatas, cello sonatas, six string quartets, a piano trio and string trio (both in A minor ...

* Louis Napoleon Le Roux

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* Guillaume de Saint-André *

Victor Segalen Victor Segalen (14 January 1878 – 21 May 1919) was a French naval doctor, ethnographer, archeologist, writer, poet, explorer, art-theorist, linguist and literary critic. He was born in Brest. He studied medicine and graduated at the Navy ...

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Louis Tiercelin Louis Tiercelin ( Rennes, 1846 - Paramé, 1915), was a French writer, poet and playwright associated with the Breton cultural renaissance of the early 20th century. He debuted at the age of 18 with two plays performed at the theatre of Rennes. He ...

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* Erwan Vallerie * Jules Verne

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Bibliographie de Bretagne
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