He was educated at Lannion and at the University of Rennes, where he earned a degree in English and a diploma of Celtic studies, after a year in Swansea, Wales.[1] He returned from Britain in 1949, and was a high school teacher of English at Brest, where he remained until the end of his life.In 1945, along with Pol Le Gourrierec, he founded the magazine, Tír na nÓg (Land of the Young).[1] This took the place of a previous Breton-language review, Gwalarn, that had run for 19 years after being launched by Roparz Hemon in 1925.[2] From 1985 to 1997, he was President of the Association des Editeurs de Bretagne, working with new authors to increase the availability of books in Breton.