Breton nationalist party

Creation, the GNP

It was founded in October 1911 under the patronage of a committee of seven members of which: Camille the Draper of Erm, Louis Napoleon the Russet-red, Georges the Rumor, Edouard Guéguen, Emile Masson. At that time, the GNP will gather the essence of the Breton political movement, even if there already exists of other groupings like the Bleun Brug (Fleur de Bruyère) created in 1905 by the Abbé Perrot with his review Feiz ha Breiz ( Foi and Brittany ) which exists since 1899. This movement poses the bases of a Breton nationalism. The GNP of the time gathers radical tendencies , Libertaire S and of left, as well as conservative right.

At its creation, it develops and publishes a proclamation and proposes like national festival the September 29th, birthday day of the crowning of Nominoë and the victory gained in 1364 with Auray by Jean de Montfort over the French Army of Charles of Blois.

Breton proclamation

Source: Rene Barbin, Breton autonomism 1930.

Article 4. One successively stole us our national independence, then our provincial freedoms and franknesses, one unceasingly violated the treaty of 1532 which ensured our country these freedoms and these franknesses with the preference from a Parliament and the right to relate to its weapons, in the absence of the closed crown, the bonnet of gold hermine ringed (ridiculous compensation it is true, this glance of what we had lost). Since the French revolution, the situation worsened. Today, the underhand persecution of our Masters, all the more dangerous as it is dissimulated and hollow underground galleries in our old ground, seeks to tear off us our language and our habits, our traditions civil and religious, all that remains old national heritage, all that makes our pride and our joy. We oppose it of all our force, and we will assert the heritage of our ancestors .

Article 5. One believes us crushed, destroyed, comparable, francized. They is false! It v still has, in the Breton heart, something which resists and which survives, something that one wanted to choke, destroy and who remains today as long-lived and robust as at the time of our independence and that, conscious or unconscious, it is the feeling National .

First demonstration

The first active demonstration of this party takes place the October 29th 1912, during the inauguration on the place of the Hotel-of-City of Rennes of the monument representing, according to the artist Jean Boucher, the Union of Brittany in France where Anne of Brittany was with knees in front of the king of France. During this demonstration Camille the Draper of Erm and André Guillemot were apprehended and led to the buildings of municipal police. The goals of this party are then: “ to protest always and nevertheless against French oppression; to prepare Breton resurrection in this movement of reprobation with respect to the French people which deprive their country of the national independence to which it has right ”.

Press

Breiz Dishual is the monthly body of the Breton national Party and east creates in July 1912. Its editorial board is composed of: Yann Brézal, E. Douar-Gwé, Ewan Gouesnou, Pierre Kerguilly, Ronan de Kermené, No5el Kernejo, Fanch the Hermit, Job Loyant, Mathaliz, Gwenole Molène, Camille the Draper of Erm, pol. Sulliac. Its publication finishes in 1914.

Publications

Louis-Napoleon the Russet-red. For separatism the Breton question test preceded by the proclamation ED. Breton National Party - Rennes. 1911
Camille the Draper of Erm. Defense and illustration of the Breton language. Elements of a national literature . Edition of the Breton Nationalist Party - s.l., Printing works Breiz Dishual. 1913.
Camille the Draper of Erm. the bard Mathaliz (Georges the Rumor): member of the Gorsedd of Brittany - armoric '' Edition of the Breton Nationalist Party, 1913.

Camille the Draper of Erm. the Breton question, nationalism and the French action Edition of the Breton Nationalist Party, 1913. Rennes, Printing works of the Newspaper of Rennes

Camille the Draper of Erm. origins of Breton nationalism . Edition of the Breton Nationalist Party, 1914.

rear Evit vreiziz! = For the Breton ones, battle songs " writing by Alain Gurval and illustrated by Mathaliz. Edition of the Breton Nationalist Party. 1914.

Camille the Draper of Erm. Ireland forever, odes with the martyrs of 1916 . Edition of the Breton Nationalist Party - s.l. , Artistic Printing works of the West, Niort. 1919

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