Émile Souvestre

also Charles Émile Souvestre

Émile Souvestre was a Breton novelist, journalist and teacher, best known for his studies of Breton life, Les derniers Bretons and Le foyer breton, who settled in Paris in 1836. His novel Le pasteur d'hommes became the play Le pasteur, ou L'évangile et le foyer, written with Eugène Bourgeois and staged at the Porte-Saint-Martin in 1849, and that play, in an Italian translation, became the source of Piave's libretto for Verdi's Stiffelio. He also wrote for the Vaudeville and the Variétés, and in 1848 taught at the École d'administration.

Source works

Le pasteur, ou L'évangile et le foyer (1849)

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Wikipedia (2026) Émile Souvestre. (Accessed: 19 October 2026).
Wikipedia (2026) Stiffelio. (Accessed: 19 October 2026).
'Souvestre, Émile' (1911) in Encyclopædia Britannica. 11th edn, vol. 25. (Accessed: 19 October 2026).
Bibliothèque nationale de France (n.d.) Souvestre, Émile (1806-1854). Authority record. (Accessed: 19 October 2026).