Parti national breton (Political party, Brittany, France)

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• Presentation of the PNB
• Flag used by the PNB
• Bagadoù Stourm (Battle Groups)
• Bezen Perrot (Perrot Unit)
• Mouvement ouvrier social-national breton ( Breton Social-National Workers' Movement)

See also:

• Brittany (Traditional province, France)
• Brittany (France): Political movements

Presentation of the PNB

The PNB was a separatist movement, founded by O. Mordred and F. Debauvais in 1932 and dissolved in 1945.

Ivan Sache, 6 January 1999

Flags used by the PNB

Election flag of the PNB, 1936 - Image by Ivan Sache, 6 January 1999

During a local election held in 1936 in Guingamp, the PNB used a vertical red flag charged with a red ermine spot inscribed in a white disc.

Banner of the PNB, 1940 - Image by Ivan Sache, 6 January 1999

The PNB also used the Gwenn-ha-Du and black and white triangular or swallow-tailed flags. A triangular, horizontally divided black-white flag was hoisted in July 1940 on the balcony of the castle of Pontivy, where the PNB expected to proclaim a Breton state with the help of the German army.
[P. Rault. Les drapeaux bretons de 1188 à nos jours [rau98]]

Ivan Sache, 6 January 1999

Bagadoù Stourm

Flags of Bagadoù Stourm - Images by Ivan Sache, 6 January 1999

Bagadoù Stourm was a youth paramilitary movement founded in 1941 by the PNB and directed by Y. Goulet.
The flag of Bagadoù Stourm, designed by Y. Goulet and C. Lainé and adopted on 7 September 1941, was derived from the German Reichskriegsflagge. The flag is made of a white field charged with a Scandinavian black cross. The middle of the cross is charged with a yellow-orange triskelion in a black disk outlined in white. The cross is outlined in white and yellow-orange.
The movement also used an horizontally divided black-white-black flag.
[P. Rault. Les drapeaux bretons de 1188 à nos jours [rau98]]

Ivan Sache, 6 January 1999

Bezen Perrot

Flag of Bezen Perrot - Image by Ivan Sache, 6 January 1999

Bezen Perrot was a "Breton company fighting war against France", founded by C. Lainé, who rejected the neutrality of the PNB. The unit was renamed Bezen Perrot in 1943 after the murder of Y.-V. Perrot by an anti-German Resistance movement. Composed of a few dozens of people, Bezen Perrot fought locally under German uniform and command, with the name of Bretonische Waffenverband der SS.
The flag of Bezen Perrot was in proportions 4:5, white with a slightly decentred black cross.
[P. Rault. Les drapeaux bretons de 1188 à nos jours [rau98]]

Ivan Sache, 6 January 1999

Mouvement Ouvrier Social-National Breton

Flag of the MOSNB - Image by Ivan Sache, 6 January 1999

The MOSNB, a "National-Bolshevik movement" was founded in 1941 by T. Jeusset as a splinter of the PNB, and dissolved the same year.
The flag of the MOSNB was a vertical, parochial-like, red banner with a black ermine spot included in a white disc.
[P. Rault. Les drapeaux bretons de 1188 à nos jours [rau98]]

Ivan Sache, 6 January 1999