The Breton National Committee (Comité national breton, or CNB) was a body founded on July 3 1940 at the so-called "Congress of Pontivy", headed by François Debeauvais and Olier Mordrel. They drew up a proclamation of eighteen points, known as "Pontivy Programme". They also created a new journal, l'Heure Bretonne. 201 issues appeared between July 1940 and June 1944. Its first editor was Morvan Lebesque, then Jean Merrien until December 1940.

Background

The choice of Pontivy was not arbitrary, because it is was in this town that the last congress of the Breton National Party would have been held in 1939 had it not been prohibited by the police.