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Place of Birth: Rostrenen, Brittany, France
About Jean Le Fustec
- Jean Le Fustec (10 May 1855 in Rostrenen – 22 March 1910 in Paris) was a Breton bard, and the first Archdruid of the Goursez Vreizh (Gorsedd of Brittany).
- He is also known by his Breton language name Yann ab Gwilherm and his Druidic name Lemenik.
- Le Fustec was born in Rostrenen.
- His father Guillaume Le Fustec was a Huissier de justice (bailiff).
- His mother was Catherine Le Bars.
- He became a journalist at the French illustrated newspaper Le Magasin pittoresque, and later in various Parisian newspapers.
- In Paris, he joined the Breton Regionalist Union. In 1899, he and Erwan Berthou founded the Gorsedd of Brittany, which sought to link Brittany to international pan-Celticism, and to direct the regionalist movement and recreate distinct Breton identity.
- He was Archdruid of the Gorsedd of Brittany from 1901 to 1903, after which Berthou took over the position.
- In 1906 Le Fustec and Erwan Berthou published Eur to gir of rear Varzed, Triades des druides de Bretagne, a translation into Breton of the 46 theological Triads of the neo-Bards, according to a text first published by Iolo Morganwg with his own Lyric Poems, then in the Barddas of J.
- William ab Ithel (1862).
- The collection, in fact a forgery by Morganwg, was claimed to have been a translation of works by Llywelyn Siôn detailing the history of the Welsh bardic system from its ancient origins to the present day.
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