Soniou Breiz-Izel

collection by Luzel and Le Braz

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Soniou Breiz-Izel is a collection of folk songs from Lower Brittany, published in two volumes in 1890. It was compiled in collaboration by Fran\u00e7ois-Marie Luzel and Anatole Le Braz. This collection followed Luzel's earlier work, Gwerziou Breiz-Izel (1868\u201374), which focused on ballads. The revival of Breton literature, spurred by the publication of Barzaz Breiz, encouraged scholars like Luzel to collect authentic folk songs and poems, preserving the regional language and folklore against efforts to suppress it.123

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…collaboration with Anatole Le Braz, Soniou Breiz-Izel (2 vol., 1890; “Folk Songs of Lower Brittanyrdquo;). In the 1980s Donatien Laurent, the first to have had access to Villemarqué’s papers, demonstrated that some of the poems were authentic.
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…collaboration with Anatole Le Braz, Soniou Breiz-Izel (2 vol., 1890; “Folk Songs of Lower Brittanyrdquo;). In the 1980s Donatien Laurent, the first to have had access to Villemarqué’s papers, demonstrated that some of the poems were authentic.
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