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Pierre Le Baud

d. 1505 · 15th century

Pierre Le Baud was a Breton priest and historian in the service of the dukes of Brittany and of Anne of Brittany. His chronicles of the kings, dukes and princes of Brittany, written in the late fifteenth century, gathered sources from Breton archives and presented Brittany as an ancient sovereign land. They were a main source for later Breton historians.

Pierre Le Baud
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