Xavier Guillemot
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Xavier Guillemot is a leading figure in Breton nationalism. He is the grandson of industrialist Jacques Guillemot and is also related to Breton writer Tepod Gwilhmod.
Guillemot was an early member of the Front National and was also the secretary general of the Fraternité française (French Brotherhood). As a member of the FN he was elected as a regional councillor in Centre, France in 1998 and later held the seat for the National Republican Movement. However he later left both the FN and Centre to form Bretagne nouvelle (New Brittany), which was later known as the Mouvement Régionaliste Breton (Breton Regionalist Movement)