Régis de l'Estourbeillon

He was elected to the national Chamber of Deputies of France for the department of Morbihan, becoming one of the most active members of Action libérale, a rightist pro-Catholic faction within the Republic.

L'Estourbeillon was associated with anti-Dreyfusard views, and attended a "grand reunion antisemite" in Nantes with Jules Guérin in 1898.

[1] Liberals and Drefusards left the Breton Regionalist Union to found the rival Blues of Brittany in the same year.

He attempted to interest the Minister of State for education Gaston Doumergue who refused their request by claiming that "teaching of Breton would support the separatist tendencies".

After the war he withdrew from national politics, but continued to pursue his demands for official teaching of the Breton language.