Family
Briand is the brother-in-law of senator Henri Claireaux.Biography
He edited the weekly publication ''L'Écho des îles Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon ("The Echo of the islands of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon")''. With his brother-in-law Henri, he was a part of the collaborationist elite of Saint-Pierre, causing them both to be arrested in January 1944. Despite both being fervent anti-Gaullism, Gaullists, they became political adversaries.References
* André-Louis Sanguin, ''Le 101e département de la République française'', in Norois n°110, 1981. 1909 births 1966 deaths Deputies of the 2nd National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic Members of Parliament for Saint Pierre and Miquelon {{SaintPierreMiquelon-bio-stub