Jean Sicard known as Yann Brekilien, was a Breton

Brittany

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 writer. Fighting in the French Resistance

French Resistance

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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

Maquis (World War II)

The Maquis were the predominantly rural guerrilla bands of the French Resistance. Initially they were composed of men who had escaped into the mountains to avoid conscription into Vichy France's Service du travail obligatoire to provide forced labour for Germany...

 to escape the STO

Service du travail obligatoire

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, hiding at Elliant

Elliant

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, commanding an FFI

French Forces of the Interior

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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 March 12, 2009, at the age of 88.