Vefa de Saint-Pierre

The countess Geneviève de Méhérenc de Saint-Pierre (Vefa Sant-Pêr in Breton), Brug ar Menez Du (bardic name) was a Breton explorer, reporter and author, born in Plian on 4 May 1872 and deceased in Sant-Brieg in 1967.

Biography

By turns nun, reporter, author of fiction, poetry and youth fiction, she was a glob-trotter and a hunter travelling across America (North and South) and Australia.

She is also known for having owned the Menez Kamm manor, where a Breton Hall was settled in the 1970s. She also sponsored various Breton movements, both Catholic and communist. She was a close friend of Yann Fouere.^[1]

In 1930, she was admitted to the Goursez Vreizh under the name Brug ar Menez Du (Heather of the Black Mountains). In 1949, she was the first to use a bilingual notarised agreement in France, in French and Breton.

Publications

• Les Émeraudes de l'Inca, fiction in collaboration with Fernand de Saint-Pierre, Paris, Les Gémeaux, 1923
• Iverzon gwelet gant eur Vretonez, report at the Eucharistic Congress of Dublin (1932), Moulerez Thomas, Guingamp,1933
• several poems in Breton periodicals

Bibliography

Claire Arlaux, Une Amazone bretonne - Vefa de Saint-Pierre, Coop Breizh, 2000

References