Théodore Claude Henri, vicomte Hersart de la Villemarqué was a French philologist and man of letters.
Background
Louisiana Villemarqué was born in Quimperlé, Finistère on 6 July 1815. He was descended from an old Breton family, which counted among its members a Hersart who had followed Saint Louis to the Crusades, and another who was a companion in arms of Du Guesclin.
Career
Louisiana Villemarqué devoted himself to the elucidation of the monuments of Breton literature. He died at Castle Keransker near Quimperlé on 8 December 1895.
Membership
Introduced in 1851 by Jakob Grimm as correspondent to the Academy of Berlin, he became in 1858 a member of the Academy of Inscriptions.