Auguste Brizeux

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Auguste Brizeux

Julien Auguste Pélage Brizeux (12 September 1803 – 3 May 1858) was a French poet. He was said to belong to a family of

Théâtre Français a one-act verse comedy, Racine, in collaboration with Philippe Busoni [d
].

His most important works are, first, Marie (1832, 1836, 1840), then, Les Bretons (1845, 1846). He also wrote in the Breton language, notably Telenn-Arvor and Furnez Breiz.

Life

Brizeux was born at

Breton orthography codified by Jean-François Le Gonidec. He became an ardent student of the philology and archaeology
of Brittany, and had collected materials for a dictionary of Breton place-names.

A journey to

King John
of England. His Histoires poétiques (1855) was crowned by membership in the French Academy.

Following his death at Montpellier in 1858, his Œuvres complètes (2 vols., 1860) were edited with an assessment of the author by Saint-René Taillandier. Another edition appeared in 1880–1884 (4 vols.). A long list of articles on his work may be consulted in an exhaustive monograph, Brizeux. Sa vie et ses œuvres (1898), by the abbé C. Lecigne.

Known as "le prince des bardes bretons",

Celticists. Théodore Botrel created a monument to him in Pont-Aven, which is ceremonially adorned each year at the Fête des Fleurs d’Ajonc. His works in Breton, Telenn Arvor (1844), and his collection of proverbs, Furnez Breiz (1845), were republished by Roparz Hemon in the Breton language literary magazine Gwalarn
in 1929.

Works
Editions and translations
  • Mémoires de Madame de La Vallière, 2 vol., 1829
  • La Divine Comédie de Dante Alighieri, traduction nouvelle par A. Brizeux,.avec une notice et des notes par le même, 1841
Posthumous publications

See also

References

  1. ^ Goulven Peron, "Les Amis paysans de Brizeux et de La Villemarqué"', in: Le Lien, no. 108, December 2008, p. 7–19.
  2. ^ After Les Noms qui ont fait l'histoire de Bretagne (1997). In Brittany, at least fourteen streets are named after him.

External links

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