Jean Sicard (11 December 1920,

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– 12 March 2009), known as Yann Brekilien, was a

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writer. Fighting in the

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from 1941, he founded a secret journal with the Dupouy brothers and the sons of the bâtonnier Arrighi. In 1942, he entered the Ceux de la Résistance (CDLR) and the following year joined the maquis to escape the STO, hiding at

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, commanding an FFI section and fighting in the battles of summer 1945. After the war he worked as a magistrate as well as a prolific author, becoming founder and honorary president of the association des écrivains Bretons. Brekilien died on 12 March 2009, at the age of 88.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Brekilien 1920 births 2009 deaths Writers from Paris Writers from Brittany French Resistance members French male writers 20th-century French male writers