Paul-Yves Pezron (20 January 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."
References※
- ^ "The Invention of Tradition", Prys Morgan
- ^ The Gentleman's Magazine, June, 1841, "The Conventual College of the Bernardins at Paris", p. 592-597
- ^ "From a Death to a View : The Hunt for the Welsh Past in the Romantic Period". courses.ed.asu.edu. Archived from the original on 14 December 2005.
- ^ Giants in Western Europe