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[Brittany] - THE CONTEMPORARY BRETON PARNASSE IN A SINGLE GOLDEN BOOK, 1912 Extremely rare and unique collection entitled "Les poètes de Bretagne à Louis Tiercelin", bound in-4 in half-chagrin, comprising 57 L.A.S. or P.A.S. (over 100 pages), in-8 and in-4 formats, consisting of manuscripts (poems, prose and musical scores) by Breton artists of the Belle-Époque. On September 1, 1912, delegates from the Breton Parnassus gathered in Paramé around Louis Tiercelin, at his villa in Kerazur, to pay tribute to the "prince of poets" and present him with this guest book. This album amicorum was composed by Édouard Beaufils, secretary of the Breton literary magazine "L'Hermine", founded by Tiercelin. From January to June 1912, Beaufils solicited and collected 57 unpublished texts and pieces of music written by authors forming the Breton Pantheon, with the aim of paying a spontaneous, friendly and singular tribute to the master of Breton poetry at the time. 5 handwritten pages entitled "Lettres de Buzulzo - La Jeunesse et l'Hermine", recount the genesis and creation of the two Breton literary magazines: La jeunesse bretonne (1868-1869) and L'Hermine (1890-1911), and the driving and major role played by Louis Tiercelin: "1868: first issue of La Jeunesse; 1911: last issue of L'Hermine. Were we enthusiastic enough as editors of La Jeunesse! We were young and unsuspecting: we corresponded with Victor Hugo, then in exile, and looked forward to the first Lanternes de Rochefort. Theatrical and literary chronicles, short stories, philosophical dissertations - no genre was off-limits, either in prose or verse; the Rennes theater was even staging dramas (...) and Tiercelin was already making headway on the road to the Odéon, the Comédie française and the Opéra. (...) A la Jeunesse had no newsroom; we met, which preserved us from the habit of cafés, at the home of one or other of the editors, and there we discussed hotly and breathlessly all the philosophical, literary, dramatic or musical questions on the paper's usual agenda. We always disagreed; we took to our hair a little, to the great detriment of those who wore it long, but the dissensions were fleeting and the friendship was invariably reborn. La Jeunesse thus lasted four seasons (...) then came the end of university studies and the war, which scattered us. Apart from Tiercelin and Doynel, fellow students from an early age and whose parents lived in the same town, we remained, inexplicably enough, several years apart (...) It was again thanks to Tiercelin that the cordial relations of yesteryear began anew between the four surviving members of La Jeunesse, and this time on an uninterrupted basis. A relentless worker, Tiercelin never ceased to publish prose, verse, novels, dramas and comedies: Brittany provided the setting and the theme (...) he still found a way to bring out this Hermine, created and supported by him to encourage the revival of letters in Brittany, a monthly publication which took up his precious time, but which rendered great service to young Breton writers by highlighting them and providing them with the advice of a benevolent experience. For 22 years he held high the flag of his Hermine...". At the end of the 19th century, Louis Tiercelin's works were performed mainly at the Odéon, the Paris Opera, the Comédie Française and throughout Europe. At the time, literature by Breton authors was more appreciated in Paris than in Brittany, where local authors were little-known. In 1889, Louis Tiercelin and his friend, the Guingamp composer Joseph-Guy Ropartz, published L'anthologie des parnassiens bretons (The Anthology of Breton Parnassians), an anthology of previously unpublished poems by authors with Breton roots. A veritable manifesto, it attests to the existence of a Breton cultural movement. In January 1890, Louis Tiercelin became the leader of this literary revival and commitment to Breton identity, founding the magazine L'Hermine, which covers Breton cultural news (poetry, theater, tales, short stories, etc.) and promotes Breton-language and bilingual creations. As Jakeza Le Lay writes in her book "Le Parnasse breton, un souffle avant-gardiste", the Parnasse was a veritable pantheon of "Catholics, socialists, royalists and Druids whose only true banner was the love of Brittany and an ideal...".

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[Brittany] - THE CONTEMPORARY BRETON PARNASSE IN A SINGLE GOLDEN BOOK, 1912 Extremely rare and unique collection entitled "Les poètes de Bretagne à Louis Tiercelin", bound in-4 in half-chagrin, comprising 57 L.A.S. or P.A.S. (over 100 pages), in-8 and in-4 formats, consisting of manuscripts (poems, prose and musical scores) by Breton artists of the Belle-Époque. On September 1, 1912, delegates from the Breton Parnassus gathered in Paramé around Louis Tiercelin, at his villa in Kerazur, to pay tribute to the "prince of poets" and present him with this guest book. This album amicorum was composed by Édouard Beaufils, secretary of the Breton literary magazine "L'Hermine", founded by Tiercelin. From January to June 1912, Beaufils solicited and collected 57 unpublished texts and pieces of music written by authors forming the Breton Pantheon, with the aim of paying a spontaneous, friendly and singular tribute to the master of Breton poetry at the time. 5 handwritten pages entitled "Lettres de Buzulzo - La Jeunesse et l'Hermine", recount the genesis and creation of the two Breton literary magazines: La jeunesse bretonne (1868-1869) and L'Hermine (1890-1911), and the driving and major role played by Louis Tiercelin: "1868: first issue of La Jeunesse; 1911: last issue of L'Hermine. Were we enthusiastic enough as editors of La Jeunesse! We were young and unsuspecting: we corresponded with Victor Hugo, then in exile, and looked forward to the first Lanternes de Rochefort. Theatrical and literary chronicles, short stories, philosophical dissertations - no genre was off-limits, either in prose or verse; the Rennes theater was even staging dramas (...) and Tiercelin was already making headway on the road to the Odéon, the Comédie française and the Opéra. (...) A la Jeunesse had no newsroom; we met, which preserved us from the habit of cafés, at the home of one or other of the editors, and there we discussed hotly and breathlessly all the philosophical, literary, dramatic or musical questions on the paper's usual agenda. We always disagreed; we took to our hair a little, to the great detriment of those who wore it long, but the dissensions were fleeting and the friendship was invariably reborn. La Jeunesse thus lasted four seasons (...) then came the end of university studies and the war, which scattered us. Apart from Tiercelin and Doynel, fellow students from an early age and whose parents lived in the same town, we remained, inexplicably enough, several years apart (...) It was again thanks to Tiercelin that the cordial relations of yesteryear began anew between the four surviving members of La Jeunesse, and this time on an uninterrupted basis. A relentless worker, Tiercelin never ceased to publish prose, verse, novels, dramas and comedies: Brittany provided the setting and the theme (...) he still found a way to bring out this Hermine, created and supported by him to encourage the revival of letters in Brittany, a monthly publication which took up his precious time, but which rendered great service to young Breton writers by highlighting them and providing them with the advice of a benevolent experience. For 22 years he held high the flag of his Hermine...". At the end of the 19th century, Louis Tiercelin's works were performed mainly at the Odéon, the Paris Opera, the Comédie Française and throughout Europe. At the time, literature by Breton authors was more appreciated in Paris than in Brittany, where local authors were little-known. In 1889, Louis Tiercelin and his friend, the Guingamp composer Joseph-Guy Ropartz, published L'anthologie des parnassiens bretons (The Anthology of Breton Parnassians), an anthology of previously unpublished poems by authors with Breton roots. A veritable manifesto, it attests to the existence of a Breton cultural movement. In January 1890, Louis Tiercelin became the leader of this literary revival and commitment to Breton identity, founding the magazine L'Hermine, which covers Breton cultural news (poetry, theater, tales, short stories, etc.) and promotes Breton-language and bilingual creations. As Jakeza Le Lay writes in her book "Le Parnasse breton, un souffle avant-gardiste", the Parnasse was a veritable pantheon of "Catholics, socialists, royalists and Druids whose only true banner was the love of Brittany and an ideal...".

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