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