Gustave de Penmarch

Jules François Marie Duplessis Kergomard, called Gustave de Penmarch (14 July 1822, in Morlaix – 28 March 1901, in Morlaix) was a 19th-century French poet and chansonnier.

The husband of Pauline Kergomard (née Reclus) whom he married in 1863, he wrote under her pseudonym many poems often set in music by Alfred Dufresne. In 1875, he published the posthumous works of Gustave de Penmarch who was none other than himself. Jules Duplessis-Kergomard was a penniless man of letters with little interest in working; The couple had two children.

Works 1851: Heureuse !, poetry, music by Dufresne 1851: Les Feux follets, poems 1853: Reflets de Printemps, poetry, music by Dufresne 1854: La Colombe, poetry, music by Dufresne 1854: Écoute, poetry, music by Dufresne 1854: L’Étoile, poetry, music by Dufresne 1854: L'Heure des adieux, poetry, music by Dufresne 1854: Le Sommeil des fleurs, poetry, music by Dufresne 1855: Sous la tonnelle, poetry, music by Dufresne 1857: Les Voix dans l'air, rêverie, music by Dufresne 1858: Adieu paniers vendanges sont faites, song, music by Dufresne 1861: Essai biographique sur Marie Rouault, directeur du Musée géologique de Rennes, in La Sylphide 30 August 1865: Les Filles romanesques, published under his real name 1868: Enora, poems 1875: Gustave de Penmarch. Œuvres posthumes d'un poète breton, preface by Jules Kergomard 1878: Le Sommeil des fleurs, poetry, music by Dufresne modernised by Camille Saint-Saëns 1880: Washington