Souvestre, Émile, French novelist and playwright, born at Morlaix; at 30 he established himself in Paris as a journalist, and became noted as a writer of plays and of charming sketches of Breton life, essays, and fiction; “Les Derniers Bretons” and “Foyer Breton” are considered his best work (1806‒1854).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Southwell, Robert * Souza, Madame de