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EMILE POUVILLON (1840-1906)

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 222 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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POUVILLON (1840-1906)  , French novelist, was born at Montauban (Tarn et Garonne) . He published in, 1878 a collection of stories entitled Nouvelles realisles . Making himself the chronicler of his native province of Quercy, he painted its scenery and its
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life with
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great clearness of outline and without exaggeration . His books include Cesette (1881), the story of a peasant girl; L'Innocent (1884);
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Jean-de-Jeanne (1886); Le Cheval bleu (1888); Le Viceu d'etre chaste (1900); Chante-pleure (1890);
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Les Antibel (1892); Petites times (1893); Mademoiselle Clemente (1896); Pays et paysages (1895); Petites gens (1905); Bernadette de
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Lourdes (1894), a mystery; and Le Rol de Rome (1898), a
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play . He died at
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Chambery .

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