Jean Merrien

Jean Merrien , alias Rene Madec , or Christophe Paulin , of his true name Rene of the Pitch of Fréminville (June 3rd 1905 - June 7th 1972, Freiburg (Swiss)).

Remark : one of its pseudonyms is the name of another Rene Madec (1736 - 1794), nabob of the Grand Moghol.

Origin

He is the son of Charles of the Pitch of Fréminville, engineer, and of Rachel Sylvestre de Sacy. Man of letters, gifted for the writing. He becomes familiar of the world of the Mer and the fishing to the Pouldu. He carries out his military service in the navy.

Pre-war period

He Marie with Francoise Hannebicque, from this union will be born Herve from the Pitch of Fréminville in 1931. During the Second world war it meets Gisele Verschuere with Cherbourg. They settle with Rennes, and create the Librairie of Brittany . This Librairie will be destroyed by bombardments.

The Second world war

In October 1940, he is the second editor association of the Breton Hour (after Morvan Lebesque) until December 1940, the newspaper of the GNP, the Breton national Parti then held by Olier Mordrel. It is replaced by Jos Jaffré, at the time of the ousting of Olier Mordrel of the Breton National Parti.

He writes in this newspaper in the issues of November to December 1940:

" our enemy, it is France, they are not the French… " " When France recognizes our freedom, we will have with it the best relations, our trade will be supplemented and we will preserve the friendships which we randomly tied of the barracks or the camps " (November 3rd 1940)
" We cannot be treacherous towards France because we do not know France like our natural fatherland. we are Bretons. For a certain time, Brittany is officially included in France but it is not part of France, it is Brittany " (December 17th 1940)
" Besides, we do not want to make in France any evil. But that initially, it gives up making on our premises, the law wrongly ". (December 17th 1940)

He is member in 1941 of the Celtic Institut.

The writer

He joined in 1948 Nantes, then in 1964 joined the Suisse. Historian, it left important works on the life of the sailors, the corsairs, the single-handed sailors. Yachtman, with naval architects, it created the series of the “devils”, boats with double skittle. The major part of its notoriety is due to its didactic works on the sailing.

Publications

has share its first works, young Death (1938) and Abandons of stations (1939), Free in and out (populist Prix 1944) and the Refusal (1946), the maritime adventure is the topic of its novels such the Man of the sea (Grand Prix of the sea 1948), the Memories of a yacht (1953) or Valerie of the sea (1960).
He is also the scientist Historien of the “race” ( Such were corsairs and flibustiers , 1957) and of the sailors ( Christophe Colomb , 1955; Great Dramas of the sea , 1961; the Legendary one of the sea , 1969; Daily life of the ramis at the time of the Sun king , 1964, etc)
It used in its books its experiment of the Navigation (which it practiced on his own boat since the twelve years age and the Marine of war) - quote inter alia: Dictionary of the sea (1960), Small Corsican ports (1960), My Small Sail in 60 lessons (1965), Birth and life of the boat (1965).
Under the pseudonym of Rene Madec, it published detective novels whose Garrec abbot is the leader of play.
Under that of Christophe Paulin, it wrote to “ police sailors ”.

Its work counts also many books for youth. On the whole more than 80 works. It devoted its last work to the brother of its back paternal grandfather, a certain knight of Fréminville (Christophe de Fréminville) in 1970.

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