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Émile Souvestre

Born

in Montmorency, France

April 15, 1806

Died

July 05, 1854

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Émile Souvestre was a French novelist who was a native of Morlaix, Finistère. He was the son of a civil engineer and was educated at the college of Pontivy, with the intention of following his father's career by entering the Polytechnic School.

His best work is to be found in Les Derniers Bretons (4 vols, 1835-1837) and Le Foyer breton (1844), where the folk-lore and natural features of his native province are worked up into story form, and in Un Philosophe sous les toils, which received in 1851 a well-deserved academic prize. He also wrote a number of other works—novels, dramas, essays and miscellanies ...more

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Average rating: 3.82 · 105 ratings · 14 reviews · 610 distinct works • Similar authors

	An Attic Philosopher in Paris; Or a Peep at the World from a Garret: Being the Journal of a Happy Man 3.89 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 1850 — 187 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The World as It Shall Be by Émile Souvestre, Margaret Clarke (Translator), Ignatius Frederick Clarke (Introduction, Editor) 3.67 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1846 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Attic Philosopher in Paris — Volume 1 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2011 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Peronnik: A French Fairy Tale of the Grail Quest 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1984 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Attic Philosopher in Paris — Volume 2 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2010 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	閣樓裡的哲學家 by Émile Souvestre, 埃米爾・梭維斯特, 楊芩雯 (Translator) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Attic Philosopher in Paris — Volume 3 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2011 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Contes et légendes de basse Bretagne by Émile Souvestre, Ernest Du Laurens De La Barre, François-Marie Luzel really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2014 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Breton Fairy Tales by Émile Souvestre, Richard Kennedy (Illustrator) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Popular Legends Of Brittany: An English Version Of Souvestre's Foyer Breton by Émile Souvestre, Heinrich Bode (Translator) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1844 — 49 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The stomach is a slave that must accept everything that is given to it, but which avenges wrongs as slyly as does the slave.”
― Émile Souvestre

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“One of the infirmities of our nature is always to mistake feeling for evidence, and to judge of the season by a cloud or a ray of sunshine.”
― Émile Souvestre, An Attic Philosopher in Paris — Volume 2

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“If happiness is the rarest of blessings, it is because the reception of it is the rarest of virtues.”
― Émile Souvestre, An Attic Philosopher in Paris — Volume 1

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