Émile Pouvillon

Émile Pouvillon (1840 in Montauban – 1906 in Chambéry) was a French novelist.

He published in 1878 a collection of stories entitled Nouvelles réalistes. Making himself the chronicler of his native province of Quercy, he painted its scenery and its life with great clearness of outline and without exaggeration. 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 pen name of the French naval lieutenant Julien Viaud) later author of Madame Chrysanthème (1887).