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4 unusual facts about Auguste Brizeux


Auguste Brizeux

Following his death at Montpellier on 3 May 1858, his Œuvres complètes (2 vols., 1860) were edited with a notice of the author by Saint-René Taillandier.

Théodore Botrel created a monument to him in Pont-Aven, which is ceremonially adorned each year at the Fête des Fleurs d’Ajonc.

Goursez Vreizh

1838: La Villemarqué, Auguste Brizeux and Jean-François Le Gonidec are adopted as honorary members of Cymdeithas Cymreigyddion y Fenny (Abergavenny Celtic union).

Jean-François Le Gonidec

They were adopted immediately by Théodore Hersart de la Villemarqué (1815–1895) and Auguste Brizeux (1803–1858), whose works, especially the former's Barzaz Breiz, founded modern Breton literature.



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