Jean Boulbain (1911 - 1973)

Jean Boulbain was born in St Brieuc. He was ordained a priest in 1936, and was a former student of the Beaux-Arts, illustrator and art teacher at Notre-Dame College in Guingamp. It was the war that revealed his extraordinary personality. In 1943, several of the school's abbots joined the Resistance, including Abbé Boulbain, who was responsible for integrating young people from youth centres and other patronages into the network. Involved in the Shelburn network, his glorious feats of arms are numerous and deserve more than the present description to relate them.
After the war, the abbot became secretary of the Diocesan Commission for Sacred Art and first general secretary of the Friends of Mathurin Méheut. It was he who organised the first major retrospective of the painter's work in Lamballe in 1960. It was also he who bought the Maison du Bourreau in 1963 to establish a museum dedicated to Mathurin Méheut.
It was undoubtedly his friend Augustin Tuset who brought Jean Boulbain back to the Henriot factory after the war. He then went on to work with the Kéraluc factory.