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SOUVESTRE (Émile). LES MERVEILLES de la Nuit de Noël: Récits Fantastiques du Foyer Breton. Paris. 1868. - SOUVESTRE (Émile) LES MERVEILLES de la Nuit de Noël: Récits Fantastiques du Foyer Breton . Illustrés par Tony Johannot, O. Penguilly, A. Leleux, C. Fortin et Saint-Germain. Paris: Michel Lévy Frères, Libraires Éditeurs, 1868. [4], 374 pp.: 4 grav.; il.; 270 mm. Émile Souvestre (Morlaix, 1806-Paris, 1854), Breton novelist, playwright, and journalist, is best known for his Un Philosophe sous les toits (1850), which won an award from the French Academy. His work collecting Breton oral traditions, of which this volume is a part, constituted a pioneering contribution to the literary ethnography of Brittany. Les Merveilles de la Nuit de Noël is a collection of tales and fantastic narratives gathered in the four historical bishoprics of Brittany – Tréguier, Léon, Cornuaille, and Vannes – transmitted through the oral tradition of the ”foyer breton”. The 1868 edition, published posthumously by Michel Lévy Frères, is richly illustrated with engravings in the text and four extra-textual etchings by Tony Johannot, O. Penguilly, A. Leleux, C. Fortin and Saint-Germain. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate