Yves Lainé

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Yves Lainé, born 1937, is a Breton lawyer, politician and companies executive manager, now a writer, arguing for the return of Loire-Atlantique departement in the administrative région of Brittany the reunification and devolution of the historical Brittany.

Born in 1937 in Nantes (former Brittany's capital but now that of the administrative region of Pays de Loire), he was a director of CELIB (Committee of Breton Interests) and worked as a director of the Nantes-Saint Nazaire Port Authority and Brittany Ferries. He founded the B5 association (B for Brittany and 5 for the 5 Breton departements : Finistère, Côtes-d'Armor, Morbihan, Ille-et-Vilaine and Loire-Atlantique) and also the vice president of Bretagne Réunie (French for United Brittany). He wrote L'ambition de Bretagne d'un Nantais in 2002. He is currently chairman the Breton writers'association, chairman of The Law and Institutions Department in the Institut Culturel de Bretagne (Skol Uhel ar Vro in Breton language).

Writings:

.Europe rends nous la mer (Europe give us back the sea) Sea-trade policy. Ed.CELIB 1972

.L'ambition de Bretagne d'un Nantais (A Nantais's ambition for Brittany) Véhicule 2002

.Relevance of a dual society (Contribution World Human Rights Forum 2004 - On line at PlanetAgora.com

.Les ailes et le sang (Wings and blood) Historical novel abt war 1914-18 Cheminement 2006

. Zouave et Communard Cheminement to be published early 2008.