Fañch Broudic

Fañch Broudic is a journalist. He founded the news programme An Taol-Lagad on France 3 Bretagne before taking charge of all Breton programming. His thesis entitled La Pratique du breton de l’Ancien Régime à nos jours (The Use of Breton from the Ancien Régime to Today) was published by Presses universitaires de Rennes in 1995 (and online at www.la-pratique-du-breton.org). He is a research associate at the Centre for Celtic and Breton Research (UBO Brest) and has published works in French and Breton, as well as dozens of articles.

These include: “L’interdit de la langue première à l’école” and “Le Breton”, in Kremnitz Georg (dir.), Histoire sociale des langues de France, Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2013; “Langue bretonne : un siècle de mutations”, International Journal of the Sociology of Language, n° 223, in Horsnby Michael & Vigers Dick; “Breton: The Post-Vernacular Challenge”, 2013; “Bretagne”, in Reutner Ursula (ed.), Manuel des francophonies, De Gruyter, 2017; Kremnitz Georg, “French and the languages of France”, in Ayres-Bennett Wendy and McLaughlin Mairi (ed.), Oxford Handbook of the French Language (2024). His blog, www.langue-bretonne.org has been viewed over a million times.