Auguste Pélage Brizeux ( 1803 – 1858) was given a traditionalist Catholic schooling in and in , and undertook law studies in in 1824. There he joined a coterie of (mainly aristocratic and reactionary-monarchist) Breton students. His literary debut was made after the 1830 revolution: <em>Marie</em> (1831), a long narrative poem evoking a failed love affair and, in true Romantic spirit, equating the lost beloved with the distant fatherland – in this case: Brittany. Brittany, its language and culture, became an increasing point of identification as Brizeux made contact with the aging and with , thirteen years his junior. Although invited to joined the to the 1838 , Brizeux decided to stay in Paris to keep the ailing Le Gonidec company. The bardic titles bestowed on La Villemarqué and his companions also triggered a “bardic” frame in his poetical self-identification, although meanwhile, employed at a <em>Lycée</em> in , he had also developed an affinity with Italy.
<em>Les Bretons</em>, a romance collection inspired by Breton folklore and legends, appeared in 1845 and with the support of Alfred de and Victor obtained a prize from the <em>Académie française</em>. One of the romances, <em>La chasse du Prince Arthur</em>, evoking a medieval Duke of Brittany, later inspired a by Guy (1911-12). In the next decade, many more Breton-themed verses appeared in the <em>Revue des deux mondes</em>. <em>Histoires poétiques</em> (1855) was again crowned by the <em>Académie française</em>.
Brizeux developed tuberculosis after 1851 and died in 1858. He is mainly remembered as one of the founding fathers of a French-language, regionally Breton literature. However, as a native speaker of Breton, he also published Breton-language works during his stay in Paris: a verse collection, <em>Telenn arvor</em> (1844), and a collection of proverbs (1845). For these he did not use his native Cornouaille dialect but the of Le Gonidec.