Vefa de Saint-Pierre

Vefa de Saint-Pierre
Born
Geneviève de Méhérenc de Saint-Pierre

4 May 1872
Plian, France
Died1967
Sant-Brieg, France
NationalityFrench
Other namesBrug ar Menez Du (Heather of the Black Mountains)
Occupation(s)Writer, explorer
SpouseJoseph-Marie Potiron de Boisfleury
Parents
  • Count Henri de Méhérenc de Saint-Pierre (father)
  • Marie Espivent de La Villesboisnet (mother)

Vefa de Saint-Pierre, born Geneviève de Méhérenc de Saint-Pierre (or Vefa Sant-Pêr in the Breton language), or Brug ar Menez Du (bardic name) was a Breton explorer, reporter and author, born in Plian, France, on 4 May 1872 and died in Sant-Brieg in 1967.

She was the daughter of Count Henri de Méhérenc de Saint-Pierre and Marie Espivent de La Villesboisnet, a "pure heiress of the Breton nobility" and born in a castle in the Côtes-d'Armor.[1] By turns a nun, reporter, novelist, author of poetry and youth fiction, Saint-Pierre was a global voyager and hunter travelling across North and South America and Australia who wrote enthusiastically about her adventures.[2]

  1. ^ "Véfa de Saint-Pierre comtesse rebelle". Le Telegramme (in French). 2000-05-09. Retrieved 2020-03-02.
  2. ^ "Vefa de Saint-Pierre". Calendrier de l'avent du domaine public 📚 Édition québécoise (in Canadian French). 2017-12-30. Retrieved 2020-03-01.