Paul-Yves Pezron

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Paul-Yves Pezron was a seventeeth-century priest 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.^[1]

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.^{[2] [3]}

[edit] References

1. ^ "The Invention of Tradition", Prys Morgan
2. ^ http://courses.ed.asu.edu/gonzalez/Efiles%20&%20folders/Invention%20of%20Tradition/Chapter%203.txt
3. ^ Giants in Western Europe