Elvire de Cerny
Elvire-Louise-Léonarde de Preissac, comtesse de Cerny, known as Elvire de Cerny was a French writer and folklorist.
She lived near Dinan for many years and wrote about Breton folklore in local newspapers. Her book Contes et légendes de Bretagne was published in 1899 and reprinted several times, including in 1995. Her 1861 work Saint-Suliac et ses traditions : contes et légendes d'Ille-et-Vilaine was reprinted in 1987. The Breton folklorist Paul Sébillot is said to have called her "la doyenne du folklore français".
She was a proponent of the theory that Napoleon was not born in Corsica but in Brittany, where he was allegedly baptised in the church of Sainte-Sève.