Paul-Pierre Roux, called Saint-Pol-Roux (15 January 1861, quartier de Saint-Henry, Marseille – 18 October 1940, Brest), was a French Symbolist poet.

He welcomed several artists and writers at the manor, notably Louis-Ferdinand Céline, who looked up to him as an ancestor, and even Jean Moulin, then ”sous-préfet de Châteaulin”, who visited in 1930.

He killed the family's faithful governess Rose with several gun shots and wounded Saint-Pol-Roux's daughter Divine with a bullet.

Saint-Pol-Roux was wounded, but managed to survive the tragedy, as the German soldier fled, frightened by the house dog.

Saint-Pol-Roux was deeply affected by the death of Rose, the injuries of his daughter and the blows he had received.

The article was called "Saint-Pol Roux, ou L'Espoir" and published in the journal Poésie a month after the death of Saint-Pol-Roux.

[1] The manor was occupied by the German military during World War II, used by the Marine Flak Abteilung 804 as a command center.

The unit was dedicated to coastal anti-aircraft defense and the German army eventually installed two French Lahitolle 95 mm cannons at the gates of the manor.

The manor was bombed several times by Allied airforces and eventually burned down on 11 October 1944, only seven days before the liberation of Camaret.

A considerable number of unedited manuscripts (Le Trésor de l'Homme, La Répoétique) survived the pillaging.

It was under this title that he was a dedicatee of André Breton's Clair de Terre (also dedicated to "ceux qui comme lui s'offrent le magnifique plaisir de se faire oublier (sic)", or "those who like him offered themselves the great pleasure of making themselves forgotten"), and Vercors's Le Silence de la mer (calling him "le poète assassiné", or "the assassinated poet").