Yves Febvre , born the December 24th 1874 with Morlaix and dead the January 21st 1959, is a French writer and politician.

Life and work

Born in a middle-class family, it makes her studies of right to Rennes then with Paris and becomes doctor in right in 1901. Supporter of Dreyfus, it resigns of the bar of lawyers of Paris, is registered with the bar of Morlaix where it pleads little; he will become later Justice of the Peace to Plouescat and lives a long time apart from Brittany. He belongs to the urban and French-speaking middle-class, republican anticlerical and organized since 1899 in l'" Association of Blue of Brittany ".

In March 1900, it founds with Charles Brunellière the socialist federation of Brittany during a congress of unification which is held with Nantes the 3 and March 4th 1900. It undertakes an intense activity of political journalist in the " Breton Socialist " who succeeded (until April 1905 " the Workman of France ") like in the " Alarm clock of Finistere " its newspaper of countryside to legislative of 1906, where it develops in particular a whole rural program, under the republican and socialist colors.

socialist Free-thinker , he is the author of a series of studies on the historical myths forged in the " Breton Movement " , as of a book: “ Brittany knelt ”. It leaves the PSU- SFIO in 1911 for the radicalism and is devoted essentially to the literature. He is primarily known by his qualities of writer and man of letters, the " Celtic Tales " , the " barbarian Trilogy " and especially " Earth of the priests " like by the review " the Breton thought " that it animates 1913 with 1925.

To advise with the Court of Appeal of Amiens, Yves Febvre sees himself entrusting in 1935 the presidency of the Patronage of the morally abandoned Children of the Sum, tries that he assumes until May 1947 with all ardor and the convictions which animate it. Association concerns " protection, the defense and the raising of guilty childhood or morally abandonnée". Under the impulse and the charisma of its founder president, in a primarily repressive legislative framework, the voluntary ones act to leave these young people their condition. It is at that time where the placements in bagnes prevail children and the reformatories that other alternatives as the family placements are tested.

Publications

• Earth of the Priests . 1924. The author suspected that the work would scandalize the Cléricaux, but not at the point to see itself bringing a length " lawsuit of Eglise" nor to be worth so many insults to him. If the fight of clerical and the anticlericals aged well to date, this novel remains one of alive descriptions of the Pays of Leon. There remains also one of rare testimonys of the lead coating which the Clergé made reign on all this region.
• Clauda Jégou, peasant of Arrée . 1936.