Perig (Pierre) Géraud-Keraod (July 1, 1917 – October 21, 1997) was one of the founders of the Bleimor Scouting movement in 1946, and later founder of the '' Scouts d'Europe''.

Background

He attended the railroad school of

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, he was deputy stationmaster in

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, where he avoided being shot by the

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. After the war he entered the Ministère de la Reconstruction (Ministry for Rebuilding) and moved his family in Paris. New to the capital, he entered a Celtic Circle, where participants meet each week, welcome newcomers from

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and dance and sing together. Among the members of this Celtic Circle were many

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s and

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s. At this point he and his wife Lizig had the idea to create a ''Centre Scout d'expression bretonne'' (Scout Center of

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Expression). This center took the name ''Bleimor'', the

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of the Breton

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Jean-Pierre Calloc'h, who died in 1917 at the

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. This Breton Scout Center was created within the framework of the Saint-Denis district of the Scouts de France. The activities at the beginning dealt with Breton dance, song and dramatic art. The first Breton Scout camp took place during the summer of 1946, in Plomelin, close to

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. Very quickly Perig and Lizig made the decision to train the Breton Scouts in

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, as they considered that folklore would not be enough to form in-depth true Scouts and Guides. At the beginning of 1947, the older Guides were attached to the Guides of France. The older Scouts were for many years within the framework of the ''Mission bretonne de l'Ile-de-France'', which had been created to occupy the Breton young people who had emigrated to the Paris area, in order to help them to preserve their Breton religious practice, which they had a tendency to give up in Paris. The service activity of Bleimor consisted of launching ' (Breton festivals) in the parishes of the Paris area where many Breton emigrants were established. The day before festivals, the Scouts distributed invitations, accompanied by bell ringers and

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Pierre Géraud-Keraod's obituary
{{DEFAULTSORT:Geraud-Keraod 1917 births 1997 deaths Scouting and Guiding in France People associated with Scouting People from Brittany

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