- Bleimor (Scouting)
Bleimor (
Breton language for "Seawolf"), more fully "Urz Skatoued Bleimor", was a BretonScouting organization, taken from thepseudonym used by Bretonpoet Jean-Pierre Calloc'h , who died duringWorld War I .Bleimor was founded in
Paris onJanuary 9 ,1946 byPierre Géraud-Keraod (later founder of the "Scouts d'Europe") andLizig Géraud-Kéraod , on the model of the "Urz Goanag Breiz" ("Order of the Breton Hope" in the Breton language) youth movement for Celtic revival inBrittany , founded in 1943 by Yann-Vari Perrot andHenry Caouissin , on the model of the Welsh movement "Urdd Gobaith Cymru " ("Order of the Welsh Hope" in theWelsh language ).The statutes of the Bleimor organization were officially lodged with the
Prefecture of Police of Paris in April, 1950. The goals of the association were stated as "Practices of Scouting and the activities of cultural expression, dances, choir singing, popular music, dramatic plays", without reference toScouts de France , nor to the Breton language.The first bulletin, published in 1947, specified the objectives of the association as "
Christian action, Celtic expression,social service , spiritual, cultural and folk formation of the Rovers, Scouts, leaders and Guides of France of Breton origin".Bleimor merged into the Federation of European Scouts in 1962.
Joseph Chardronnet was chaplain of the organization from 1948 to 1965.Bleimor's
flag was a green field charged with a yellow circle and aScandinavia n-style blackcross fimbriated with white, the whole representing aCeltic cross . Rectangular as well as triangular flags were used. The Scout movement also used a white flag with a black cross voided through and seven blackermine spots in the canton. The ermine spots had an unusual art déco pattern (a triangle, one vertical and two horizontal dashes).ee also
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Gwenc’hlan Le Scouëzec
*Scouting in France
*Alan Stivell External links and references
* [http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/fr}bz-a.html#blm]
*http://1eremarinelanderneau.free.fr/1ereMarineLanderneau/Bleimor.html
*Christophe Carichon , "Le scoutisme en Bretagne, des origines à nos jours", DEA. Université de Bretagne occidentale, 1995.
*Michel Nicolas , "Histoire du Mouvement breton", Syros, 1982.
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