Émile Souvestre (July 5, 1806 - April 15, 1854), French novelist was the son of a civil engineer, a native of Morlaix. July 5 is the 186th day of the year (187th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 179 days remaining. ... Events January 8 - Cape Colony becomes a British colony January 10 - Dutch in Cape Town surrender to the British January 19 - The United Kingdom occupies the Cape of Good Hope February 6 - Royal Navy victory off Santo Domingo - see:Action of 6 February 1806 March 23 - After traveling through the... April 15 is the 105th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (106th in leap years). ... 1854 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Morlaix is a commune, or municipality, in the département of Finistère in Brittany, North-West France. ...

He was by turns a bookseller's assistant, a private schoolmaster, a journalist, and master at the grammar schools of Brest and of Mülhausen. He settled in Paris in 1836, where he was made (1848) professor in a school for the instruction of civil servants. Brest is the name of several cities: City in Belarus: Brest, Belarus, formerly in Russia and the Soviet Union and formerly known as Brest-Litovsk. ... Location within France Mulhouse (Mülhausen in German, Milhüsa in Alsatian and Muhlhausen in Dutch) is a town and commune in eastern France. ...

He began his literary career with a drama, played at the Théâtre français in 1828, the Siege de Missolonghi. In novel writing he did much better than for the stage, although he deliberately aimed at making the novel an engine of moral instruction.

His best work is undoubtedly to be found in the charming Derniers Bretons (4 vols, 1835-1837) and 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. He died in Paris on the 5th of July 1854. The Eiffel Tower has become the symbol of Paris throughout the world. ...

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