Camille Le Mercier d'Erm, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French poet and historian
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Place of Birth: Niort, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
About Camille Le Mercier d'Erm
- Camille Le Mercier d'Erm (1888 in Rennes - 1978 in Dinard) was a French poet, historian and Breton nationalist.
- He later adopted the neo-Bardic name Kammermor.
- He is also known as Kamil Ar Merser 'Erm, the Breton language form of his name.
- His work as a poet and historian is marked by nationalist claims and calls to rebellion against the French state on the model of Irish nationalism. He was the grandson of a Chouan officer.
- He was based in Paris when in 1909 he published his first collections of poetry.
- The same year, in the Revue de l’Ouest, he wrote "Traditionalism and separatism", an article advocating separatist politics in defence of cultural tradition.
- His proposals caused a sensation.
- He was the principal founder of the Breton Nationalist Party in 1911, and was arrested when the party launched a protest in the same year at the official opening of a monument to the unity of Brittany and France.
- Le Mercier d'Erm also founded the activist journal Breiz Dishual (Free Brittany). The party and journal folded in 1914 on the outbreak of World War I.
- Immediately after the war, Le Mercier d'Erm helped to found a replacement journal, Breiz Atao (Brittany Forever), which was created in 1919.
- He also continued to play a leading role among young Breton nationalist activists between the wars.
- He launched the newspaper La Bretagne libertaire in 1921, with the article "La Nation bretonne et l’Internationale" (The Breton nation and the Internationale).
- In 1941 on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the Breton Nationalist Party, the newly formed Breton National Party (a different organisation) organised a heartfelt tribute to Le Mercier d'Erm, as a pioneer of Breton nationalism.
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