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Philippe Le Sueur Mourant (1848 – 21 August 1918) was a
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writer who wrote in
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and French. He was born in St Saviour in 1848 and spent most of his early life working in agriculture in
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and
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. He returned to Jersey in 1880 and launched a series of stories in ''La Nouvelle Chronique de Jersey'' which took the form of letters supposedly written by ''Bram Bilo'', a naïve and self-important ex-
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from St Ouen. These stories achieved great popularity (some remain classics, such as "''Bram Bilo à la vendue''" (Bram Bilo at the auction)) and a selection were republished in book form. Besides writing in Jèrriais in ''La Nouvelle Chronique de Jersey'', he also wrote in French under the pen name ''Samuel'' in ''La Chronique de Jersey''. He killed off his Bram Bilo character, and in 1911 he launched a new set of comical characters, the Pain family, in a series of Jèrriais stories in the English language newspaper ''Morning News''. In contrast to the countryside character of Bram Bilo, the Pains (Peter and Laizé and their hapless daughter Lonore) represented a family moved from the country to the bustling capital of
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with its anglicised society and entertainments. Some of the Pain stories were reprinted in ''La Chronique de Jersey'', but the series subsequently transferred to the ''
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*''Eune Collection Jèrriaise'', Jersey, 2007 1848 births 1918 deaths Norman-language poets Norman-language writers Jersey writers Jersey journalists {{Jersey-bio-stub