Alice Sauvrezis

As an active member of a group of Breton composers in Paris and as president of the Société Artistique et Littéraire de l'Ouest she promoted Celticist music and culture in France.

[3] She joined the Paris-based Société Artistique et Littéraire de l'Ouest in 1891[4] and became its president in 1920.

[5] The society organised concerts of "Celtic" music (contemporary "classical" music in a Celticist style) and poetry readings in so-called "Soirées celtiques" at Sorbonne university that included the creative output of Breton, Norman, and Irish composers, writers and artists.

As a moral support to wartime France, she edited two collections of French soldier songs, Chants de soldats (1525–1915) (Paris, 1915)[7] and Autres chants de soldats (1200–1916) (Paris, 1916).

Some composers dedicated works to her including piano music by Marguerite Balutet (Impromptu, Op.