Paul-Yves Pezron (20 January 1639, Hennebont, – 9 October 1706, Brie) was a seventeenth-century Cistercian brother from Brittany, best known for his 1703...

to describe this language group by Edward Lhuyd in 1707, following Paul-Yves Pezron, who made the explicit link between the Celts described by classical...

He published his work in 1707, shortly after translating a study by Paul-Yves Pezron on Breton. Grammars of European languages other than Latin and Classical...

when these ideas were widely popularised; first by the Breton scholar Paul-Yves Pezron in his Antiquité de la Nation et de la langue celtes autrement appelez...

family. Lhuyd also published an English translation of a study by Paul-Yves Pezron into Gaulish. In 1767 James Parsons published his study The Remains...

Brittonic languages. Building on the earlier work of George Buchanan and Paul-Yves Pezron, he categorized these languages as a Celtic language family sharing...

the work of the likes of John Davies (Mallwyd), Edward Lhuyd, and Paul-Yves Pezron and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. She continued to research extensively...

century. Lhuyd and others (notably the 17th century Breton chronologist Pezron) equated the Celts described by Greco-Roman writers with the pre-Roman peoples...