Paul-Yves Pezron, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French linguist
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Place of Birth: Hennebont, Brittany, France
About Paul-Yves Pezron
- Paul-Yves Pezron (1639, Hennebont, – 9 October 1706, Brie) was a seventeenth-century Cistercian brother from Brittany, best known for his 1703 publication of a study on the common origin of the Bretons and the Welsh, Antiquité de la nation, et de langue des celtes.
- Pezron was a Doctor of Theology at the Cistercian College of St.
- Bernard in Paris and abbot of La Charmoie.In his time, he was known in France as a chronologist.
- Pezron traced Welsh and Breton origins to the Celts of ancient writers, and traced the Celts further to eponymous hero-patriarchs from Gaul to Galatia.
- Pezron believed the Welsh language came from a mother tongue called Celtick, a language that was only a theory to other authors.
- Pezron's fairly unscientific book was popular and reprinted until the early nineteenth century.
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