Emile Souvestre

Emile Souvestre was a French lawyer, reporter, and author. He was born on April 15, 1806, in Morlaix and died on July 5, 1854, in Montmorency. During his lifetime, he worked as a lawyer, a writer, and a teacher, but his obsession with writing drove him to produce a large and varied body of work. He didn't get to finish writing because he died too soon from health problems that started in the 1820s. He has written a lot about many different topics, such as ethnography of Brittany in both non...See more

Emile Souvestre was a French lawyer, reporter, and author. He was born on April 15, 1806, in Morlaix and died on July 5, 1854, in Montmorency. During his lifetime, he worked as a lawyer, a writer, and a teacher, but his obsession with writing drove him to produce a large and varied body of work. He didn't get to finish writing because he died too soon from health problems that started in the 1820s. He has written a lot about many different topics, such as ethnography of Brittany in both non-fiction and fiction. In the July Monarchy, he had a big impact on how people thought about this area's literature and politics. Nanine Papot, his wife, was also a writer who went by the name "Nanine Souvestre." The famous Morlaix artist Jean-Baptiste Souvestre (1757-1833) had a son named Emile Souvestre. Marie-Francoise Boudier was born in Landivisiau, and Emile Souvestre was born in Guingamp. His father worked as an engineer for the Ponts et Chaussées. He had four children from two marriages. The youngest was to Perrine Le Goff, and the other three were to Emile Souvestre. See less