Gwenc'hlan Le Scouëzec

Who was Gwenc'hlan Le Scouëzec?

Loïc Gwenc'hlan Le Scouëzec was a Breton writer and Grand Druid of Brittany.

Gwenc’hlan was born in Brittany. His father was Maurice Le Scouëzec, a painter. Gwenc’hlan spent most of his childhood in Madagascar, Paris, Landivisiau and Douarnenez, before doing his secondary studies in Saint-Vincent de Pont-Croix, Saint-Yves de Quimper and Saint-Grégoire de Tours, in 1942. There, he took part in the Breton Scouts movement Bleimor. He followed higher studies in history at La Sorbonne in Paris.

He did military service between 1951 and 1953 in the French Foreign Legion at Sidi-bel-Abbès and Daya in Algeria. He was recalled to the French Foreign Legion at the 5th Foreign Regiment of 1957–1958.

He was a teacher of French in Crete and Athens from 1953 until 1957. After his military service, he became a professor at the French Institute of Athens, once back in France in Saint-Didier-en-Velay and in Versailles.

As of 1960, he started to study medicine, and completed this with distinction in the Faculty of Medicine of Paris. He became a doctor at Quimper