Émile Pouvillon
French novelist
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Émile Pouvillon (1840 in Montauban – 1906 in Chambéry) was a French novelist.[1][2]
He published a collection of stories entitled Nouvelles réalistes in 1878. Making himself the chronicler of his native province of Quercy in southwestern France, he described its scenery and its life.[3] His rustic novels were in the same vein as those of Jean de Noarrieu and André Theuriet.[4] His L'Innocent (1884) was dedicated to his friend Pierre Loti (the pseudonym of the French naval lieutenant Julien Viaud), later author of Madame Chrysanthème (1887).[5]
Works
His books include:[3]
- Césette (1881), the story of a peasant girl
- L'Innocent (1884)
- Jean-de-Jeanne (1886)
- Le Cheval bleu (1888)
- Le Vœu d'être chaste (1900)
- Chante-pleure (1890)
- Les Antibel (1892)
- Petites âmes (1893)
- Mademoiselle Clémence (1896)
- Pays et paysages (1895)
- Petites gens (1905)
- Bernadette de Lourdes (1894), a mystery
- Le Roi de Rome (1898), a play[6]
