Charles Le Goffic

Charles Le Goffic (14 July 1863 – 12 February 1932) was a Breton poet, novelist and historian whose influence was especially strong in his native Brittany.

Born in Lannion, northern Brittany, his childhood was spent with his nurse, either in Perros-Guirec, or in Trégastel.

In 1886, he founded with Maurice Barrès and Raymond de Tailhède the literary review Les Chroniques.

His short stories Passions Celtes (1910) were widely influential on the Breton cultural renaissance.

He is interred in the enclosure of the church of the borough of Trégastel, with his wife and their daughter, who died at the age of 17.

Le Goffic photographed by Georges Devred in 1931