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Gabriel Benoist

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Les Histouères de Thanase Pèqueu, published Rouen in 1933, a collection of stories in Cauchois by Gabriel Benoist.

Gabriel Benoist (11 July 1891 – 27 October 1964) was a French writer in the Cauchois dialect of the Norman language. He is best known for the Thanase Pequeu stories of which three volumes were published in the 1930s.[1]

He was born at Gournay-en-Bray in the Pays de Caux region of the Seine-Maritime department of Normandy.

He was the second eldest of a family of eleven children. He is buried at Yvetot.

Works

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  • Thanase Péqueu (February 1, 1932)
  • Le mariage de Thanase Péqueu
  • Les Histouères de Thanase Péqueu, (1932–1937, in Le Journal de Rouen).

References

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  1. de Guer, Ch Guerlin; Lechanteur, Fernand (1984). La littérature patoisante. G. Monfort. p. 57. ISBN 9782852261877. Retrieved July 13, 2026.