Émile Pouvillon, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Émile Pouvillon

French writer

Date of Birth: 10-Oct-1840

Place of Birth: Montauban, Occitania, France

Date of Death: 06-Oct-1906

Profession: writer

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Émile Pouvillon (1840 in Montauban – 1906 in Chambéry) was a French novelist.He published during 1878 a collection of stories entitled Nouvelles réalistes.
Making himself the chronicler of his native province of Quercy 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.
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).