Yves Lainé
Yves Lainé, born 1937, is a Breton lawyer, politician and companies executive manager, now a writer, arguing for the return of Loire-Atlantique departement in the administrative région of Brittany the reunification and devolution of the historical Brittany.
Born in 1937 in Nantes, he was a director of CELIB (Committee of Breton Interests) and worked as a director of the Nantes-Saint Nazaire Port Authority and Brittany Ferries. He founded the B5 association (B for Brittany and 5 for the 5 Breton departements : Finistère, Côtes-d'Armor, Morbihan, Ille-et-Vilaine and Loire-Atlantique) and also the vice president of Bretagne Réunie (French for United Brittany). He wrote L'ambition de Bretagne d'un Nantais in 2002. He is honorary chairman the Breton writers'association, ex-chairman of The Law and Institutions Department in the Institut Culturel de Bretagne (Skol Uhel ar Vro in Breton language). With another Nantes lobby les Transbordés [1] he proposes to rebuild a new hi-tech transporter bridge in the port within the frames of a Vernian loop (Jules Verne), open for tourism .
Awards:
2012, Received the collar of the Breton Ermine order (ordre de l'Hermine)In June 12013 he was elected Chancellor of this Order.
Writings:
.Europe rends nous la mer (Europe give us back the sea) Sea-trade policy. Ed.CELIB 1972
.1973-1993: vingt ans de navigation Brittany Ferries. Des romantiques aux leaders, Revue du Nord, 1995[1]
.L'ambition de Bretagne d'un Nantais (A Nantais's ambition for Brittany) Petit Véhicule 2002
.Désenclavement, un commencement ou une fin ?, in : Fanch Élégoët, Bretagne 2000, Plabennec, Tud Ha Bro, 1986, p. 75-97.[2]
.De la pertinence de sociétés duales (Relevance of a dual society) Contribution World Human Rights Forum 2004 - On line at PlanetAgora.com
.Les ailes et le sang (Wings and blood) Historical novel about war 1914-18 Cheminement 2006;[3][4] ISBN 978-2-84478-496-4
.Zouave & communard Historical novel 1870 Cheminement 2008
.Jean-Marie, Chouan de Bretagne (Jean-Marie, Insurgeant in Brittany) Historical novel 1800-1840 Ecrituriales 2012
References
- ^ In : Le Transmanche et les liaisons maritimes: XVIIIe-XXe siècle, Université Charles De Gaulle-Lille III, 1995
- ^ See: Quentin Hemmerstoffer, Vers le « Marché unique » : les milieux patronaux bretons et l'Europe (1986-1992), Mémoire, Université de Rennes, 2012 link to pdf
- ^ http://www.agencebretagnepresse.com/fetch.php?id=5104
- ^ Review by Richard Feeser, L'aérobibliothèque, novembre 2006