Summary: Belonging to the Laurent de la Barre family, he is the son of Alexandre-Marie-François du Laurens de la Barre (born October 21, 1783 in Landévennec, controller then lieutenant of customs in Lorient (Morbihan) and Marie-Anne -Louise (known as Nancy) Guegot de Traoulen (born April 23, 1791 in Champtocé-sur-Loire (Maine-et-Loire). He completed his secondary studies at the college of Quimperlé, then studied law in Rennes. used to spend his holidays at the manor of Coat ar Roc'h in the property of his paternal grandfather Antoine-Marie-François-Jacques du Laurens de la Barre, former seneschal of Concarneau and justice of the peace in Sizun, he begins to be interested in the tales and legends told by the peasants of the surroundings.On October 28, 1846 Elisa Sidonie Ply (born October 16, 1821 in Clermont (Oise) and died October 12, 1905) with whom he had two children Ernest-Marie -André du Laurens de la Barre, born November 1, 1848 in Nozay (Loire-Atlantique) and Félix-Alexandre-Jean- Marie du Laurens de la Barre, born in 1852. Notary in Vannes (where he had the Villa Saint-Guen built in the north of the city), he was justice of the peace in Sizun, he had the manor of Coat ar Roc 'fully restored. h in Commana, where he settled definitively from 1874 and where he died on December 18, 1881. Appointed to Bouaye (Loire Inferior) by decree of July 1, 1879, he renounced this appointment.

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