Pontbriant, Henri-guillaume-marie, Du Breil De

Pontbriant, Henri-Guillaume-Marie, Du Breil de brother of the two following, was born at Rennes in 1709. He was a canon, grand chantre of the cathedral of Rennes, and abbé of Lanvaux, in the diocese of Vannes. He died at Rennes in 1767. He left, Poeme sur Abums de lat Poesie, crowned at the Jeux Floraux in 1722: — Sermon sur le Sacre du Roi (Toulouse, 1722, 4to): — Essai de Grammaire Francaise (1754, 8vo): — Projet d'lne Histoire de Brtamgsne depuis 1567 jusqu'en 1754 (Rennes, 1754, fol.). — Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Géneralé, s.v.