Charles Roland
See also: Roland
Charles Roland (1862, Lannéanou - 1940, Guerlesquin), or Charlez Roland, militant and Breton musician
He is a type-setter of songs into Breton including one great part on loose leves. He will be named the “Bard of Guerlesquin”. He exerts many trades as clock and watch maker, factor and hatter. During the first war, it was not mobilized because of his many children but it composed of the patriotic songs into Breton of the same vein as those of Theodore Botrel. It gives several songs including one on Verdun: “ Emgann spontus Verdun ”. He writes in libertarian Brittany in 1923. He still signs some texts of which one which is dated: Ar gorsedd in Rosko in 1934 (the Gorsedd with Roscoff in 1934). Engaged, Socialist militant , Anticlerical, it publishes certain critical texts with regard to the religion, or of the monks. It adapts in Breton the Marseillaise towards 1896, and International the in 1902. He will write also an advertizing song dedicated to the “ Cola-Koka ” (Coca-Cola).
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