Gabriel Benoist
Gabriel Benoist 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.
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.
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Category:Norman-language writersCategory:20th-century French non-fiction writers
Category:20th-century French male writers
Category:1891 births
Category:1964 deaths