Émile Pouvillon (1840 in
Montauban
Montauban (, ; oc, Montalban ) is a commune in the Tarn-et-Garonne department, region of Occitania, Southern France. It is the capital of the department and lies north of Toulouse. Montauban is the most populated town in Tarn-et-Garonne, an ...
1906 in
Chambéry
Chambéry (, , ; Arpitan: ''Chambèri'') is the prefecture of the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of eastern France. The population of the commune of Chambéry was 58,917 as of 2019, while the population of the Chambér ...
) was a French novelist.
He published a collection of stories entitled ''Nouvelles réalistes'' in 1878. Making himself the chronicler of his native province of
Quercy
Quercy (; oc, Carcin , locally ) is a former province of France located in the country's southwest, bounded on the north by Limousin, on the west by Périgord and Agenais, on the south by Gascony and Languedoc, and on the east by Rouergue and Au ...
in southwestern France, he described its scenery and its life.
His rustic novels were in the same vein as those of
Jean de Noarrieu and
André Theuriet
Claude Adhémar André Theuriet (; 8 October 1833 in Marly-le-Roi – 23 April 1907 in Bourg-la-Reine) was a 19th-century French poet and novelist.
Life
Theuriet was born at Marly-le-Roi ( Seine et Oise), and was educated at Bar-le-Duc in his ...
. His ''L'Innocent'' (1884) was dedicated to his friend
Pierre Loti
Pierre Loti (; pseudonym of Louis Marie-Julien Viaud ; 14 January 1850 – 10 June 1923) was a French naval officer and novelist, known for his exotic novels and short stories.This article is derived largely from the ''Encyclopædia Britannica El ...
(the pseudonym of the French naval lieutenant Julien Viaud), later author of ''Madame Chrysanthème'' (1887).
Works
His books include:
*''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
[''La Nouvelle revue'' 1922 "Ce sont d'Émile Pouvillon, le Roi de Rome paru en 1898"]
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1840 births
1906 deaths
People from Montauban
19th-century French novelists
20th-century French novelists
French male novelists
19th-century French male writers
20th-century French male writers