Francis Gourvil

Francis Gourvil , known as Fanch Gourvil (or Barr-Ilio ) is Breton writer and a linguist specialist in the Celtic literatures, born the July 5th 1889 with Morlaix, dead the July 19th 1984 with Villeneuve-Saint-Georges.

Biography

Resulting from a modest milieu, the town of Morlaix grants a purse to him in order to follow the Celtic studies of the faculty of Rennes, of which it is graduate. The years morlaisiennes put it in relation to Pierre Cavellat. In Rennes he attends in particular Anatole Braz and Georges Dottin and is recognized like one of the best experts of the Celtic literatures. During the First World War, it is affected with the postal control of the military censure. Of return to Morlaix, it holds a bookstore and works in particular for the West-Flash. Parallel to its work, it militates with the Breton regionalistic Union, then with the Breton nationalist Parti, the Parti Breton separatist, and with the Breton national Parti that it leaves in 1938. It would have then passed during the Second world war in the Résistance. He in any case would have been denounced like such by Yann Bricler, and is stopped like his wife by the Gestapo. With the Release, He is in any case member of the Committee of Release of Morlaix. One owes him a thesis partisane on the Barzaz Breiz of Theodore Hersart of Villemarqué constant in 1960 at the University of Rennes, in which it questions the authenticity of certain texts. In 1989, Donatien Laurent, having had access to the manuscripts of the Barzaz Breiz , shows in its thesis that the arguments of Gourvil are not founded.

Publications

rear Buez pevar mab Emon (life of the 4 Aymon wire), 1911, éd° Ar Gwaziou (Gouaziou), Morlaix.
In collaboration with H. Laterre, Bodlann and Anatole Braz, Kanaouennou Breiz-vihan (melodies of Armorique) , 1911, Impr. of the People, Carhaix.
Soniou koz brezonek, the Breton song with the face , 1916, Printing works F. Simon, Rennes.
rear Toul it houiled: etymological test of interpretation of the names of men and places, 1919, Re-examined rear Mouez Vro , November 22nd 1919, December 11th 1920.
Of Armor in Arrée: 12 images of Low-Brittany , 1927, With the Sign of Ti-Breiz, Printing works Boclé Louis, Morlaix.
In Brittany from Saint-Brieuc to Brest and Quimper with Vannes , 1929, Arthaud, collection Beautiful countries.
a turn of Brittany at the 20th century , editions of Brittany, Rennes, Breton Printing works.
Some opinions on the local languages in teaching , editions Mouez Ar Vro , Morlaix.
Soniou nevez ha soniou koz , 1930, Ti Breiz, Morlaix.
both Brittany: hundred years ago tied the first intellectual relations between Brittany and Wales . 1938.
headstocks of Brittany trademark , 1939, headstocks Minor, Pont-l'Abbé. Illustrations of Jean-Adrien Draper.
Breton Family names in Ab-, Ap-, " wire of… " , 1951, international Center, Leuwen.
Glance on Brittany , June 10th 1952, short speeches and talks: congress of the national federation of the building and the additional activities, I.C.A., Brest.
Breton Language and literature . 1952, Collection Which do I know?, University Presses of France Paris. 3rd edition 1968, 4th edition 1976.
On a passage of the ninth series of Barzaz-Breiz , 1954, Re-examined Celtic Ogam tradition, Granvillaise Printing works, Rennes.
the word ty " maison" in juxtaposition in Breton toponymy . 1955, Ogam.
the literature arthurienne in Barzaz-Breiz , 1956, extracted the Books from Iroise, Brest.
" Theodore-Claude-Henri Hersart of Villemarqué (1815 - 1895) and the Barzaz-Breiz , 1960, Oberthur Printing works, Rennes.
Breton family names of toponymic origin , 1965, Archaeological Company of Finistere, printed with Belfort.
Family names of Low-Brittany: materials to be used for the study of the Breton anthroponymy , 1966, ED. of Artey/French company of Onosmatique, Paris. Printing works the Border, Belfort.
the language of Barzaz-Breiz and its irregularities. Strange Solecisms, syntax, turnings , 1966, Joined together Printing works, Rennes.
Breton Family names of toponymic origin , 1970, archaeological Company of Finistere, Quimper.
Family names of Low-Brittany borrowed from the marine animal-life and terrestrial , 1972, archaeological Company of Finistere, Quimper.
Names of animals in the Breton anthroponymy , 1972, editions of Artrey, Paris. Collection the Review of Breton Onomastics
Works, studies and articles concerning philology, the anthroponymy and Breton toponymy , at the Author, Plourin - lès-Morlaix. 1979.
New contributions to the history of Barzaz-Breiz , 1982.
the authenticity of Barzaz-Breiz and its defenders. With the rescue of a bad book .
rear Buhez pevar mab hemon romant , 1997, Brud Nevez Emgleo Breiz, Brest.

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