- Gwenc'hlan Le Scouëzec
Loïc Gwenc'hlan Le Scouëzec (b.
November 11 1929 ,Plouescat - d.February 6 2008 [ [http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jBV6UA8Ad-V-j6yv07Vjvcdw_q0g AFP: Les druides bretons perdent leur chef ] ] ) was a Breton writer and GrandDruid ofBrittany .Gwenc’hlan was born in Brittany. His father was Maurice Le Scouëzec, a painter. Gwenc’hlan spent most of his childhood in
Madagascar ,Paris ,Landivisiau andDouarnenez , before doing his secondary studies inSaint-Vincent de Pont-Croix ,Saint-Yves de Quimper andSaint-Grégoire de Tours , in 1942. There, he took part in the Breton Scouts movement Bleimor. He followed higher studies in history atLa Sorbonne inParis .He did military service between 1951 and 1953 in the
French Foreign Legion atSidi-bel-Abbès and Daya inAlgeria . He was recalled to the French Foreign Legion at the 5th Foreign Regiment of 1957 - 1958.He was a teacher of French in
Crete andAthens from 1953 until 1957. After his military service, he became a professor at theFrench Institute ofAthens , once back in France inSaint-Didier-en-Velay and inVersailles .As of 1960, he started to study
medicine , and completed this with distinction in the Faculty of Medicine of Paris. He became a doctor at Quimper (from 1969 until 1985. He also initiatedSkoazell Vreizh , the Breton emergency service, together withXavier Grall and Yann Choucq in the 1970s. He was a participant of the "colloque Bretagne" and self-government, in 1973. He wrote the preface inMorvan Lebesque 's book: "peut-on être breton ? Essai sur la démocratie française" (How to be a Breton? An essay about French democracy). in 1985, he founded the publishing businessBeltan . He promoted the work of his father, the painter Maurice Le Scouëzec.Neo-Druidism
He became Grand Druid "Pœllgor" on
April 1 1979 , and then he became the Grand Druid ofBrittany , succeedingPer Loisel onNovember 1 1980 . The associationGoursez Vreizh (Gorsedd of Brittany) also known as "Fraternité des druides, bardes et ovates de Bretagne" (Fraternity of the Druids,Bards andOvates of Brittany), representsNeo-druidism most regularly.Gwenc’hlan is the fifth Grand Druid of our time, according to the Gorsedd de Bretagne. In November 1993, he united a group of
freemasons , forming "loge maçonnique de la pierre pour ensuite y instaurer le rite maçonnique forestier" (a freemason lodge of the stone, to preserve the masonic forest rites).Bibliography
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* "Guide de la Bretagne mystérieuse" (1966, re-released under the title "Le Guide de la Bretagne"). Tchou, 1966.
* "La Bretagne"("Brittany"). Sun, 1967.
* "Histoire du Mouvement breton, Que sais-je?". 1971
* "Bretagne terre sacrée" ("Brittany: Sacred Land") 1977
* "La Médecine en Gaule" ("Medicine in Gaule") Guipavas, Ed. Kelenn. 1976
* "Brasparts: une paroisse des monts d’Arrée". Le Seuil, 1980.
* "Le peintre Le Scouëzec", Brasparts, Alrea, 1984.
* "Maurice Le Scouëzec, L’aventure de peindre", Brasparts, Beltan, 1993.
* "Le peintre Le Scouëzec, mon père", Brasparts, Beltan, 1995.
* "Le Scouëzec, 1881-1940: Montparnasse, la Bretagne, l'Afrique". Cénomane, 1998.
* "Dictionnaire de la Tradition Bretonne", Paris, Editions du Félin,Philippe Lebaud , 1999.
* "Guide des calvaires bretons", Spezet, Coop Breizh, 1999.
* "Itinéraire spirituel en Bretagne", Paris, La Table Ronde, 2000.
* "La tradition des druides, trois tomes", Beltan, 2001.
* "Le grand druide était innocent". Editions Beltan. (François Taldir-Jaffrenou)
* "Arthur, roi des bretons d'Armorique", Le Manoir du Tertre.In collaboration with Jean-Robert Masson:
* "Pierres sacrées de Bretagne : calvaires et enclos paroissiaux" (1982)
* "Pierres sacrées de Bretagne: croix et sanctuaires" (1983)
* "Bretagne mégalithique" (1987)
* "Enez Eusa, Ouessant mystérieux" (avec Maï-Sous Robert-Dantec). Quimper : Élisart Éditeur, 2001.
* "Entretiens avec un druide nommé Gwenc'hlan" (de Régis Blanchet aux Editions Du Prieuré) (1993).References
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