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Hersart de la Villemarqué (1815–1895)
la Villemarqué, Théodore Hersart, Vicomte de (vēl-mär-kā’). A French philologist and antiquarian; born at Quimperté, June 17, 1815; died in 1895. He is author of ‘Barzaz-Breiz: Popular Songs of Brittany’ (1840); ‘Popular Tales of the Ancient Bretons’ (1856); ‘Celtic Legends of Ireland, Wales, and Brittany’ (1859); ‘Stories of the Round Table’; ‘Breton Poems of the Middle Ages’ (1879). (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).