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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 619 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JULIEN AUGUSTE PELAGE BRIZEUX (1803-1858)  , French poet, was born at
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Lorient (
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Morbihan) on the 12th of September 1803 . He belonged to a
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family of Irish origin, long settled in
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Brittany, and was educated for the law, but in 1827 he produced at the Theatre Francais a one-act verse
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comedy, Racine, in collaboration with Philippe Busoni . A journey to Italy in
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company with Auguste Barbier made a
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great impression on him, and a second visit (1834) resulted in 1841 in the publication of a
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complete
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translation of the Diving Commedia in terza rims . With Primel el
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Nola (1852) he included poems written under
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Italian influence, entitled
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Les Ternaires (1841), but in the rustic idyl of
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Marie (1836) turned to Breton country
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life; in Les Bretons (1845) he found his inspiration in the
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folklore and legends of his native province, and in Telen-Aroor (1844) he used the Breton dialect . His Histoires poetiques (1855) was crowned by the French Academy . His
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work is small in bulk, but is characterized by simplicity and sincerity.° Brizeux was an ardent student of the
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philology and archaeology of Brittany, and had collected materials for a
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dictionary of Breton place-names He died at
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Montpellier on the 3rd of May 1858 . His 'Mimes completes (2 vols., 186o) were edited with a
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notice of the author by Saint-Rene
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Taillandier . Another edition appeared in 188o–1884 (4 vols.) . A long list of articles on his work may be consulted in an exhaustive monograph, Brizeux; sa
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vie et ses oeuvres (1898), by the abbe C . Lecigne .

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