Philippe Sueur Mourant

1848 (age 70)

Street Saviour

He returned to Jersey in 1880 and launched a series of stories in Louisiana Nouvelle Chronique de Jersey which took the form of letters supposedly written by Bram Bilo, a naïve and self-important ex-Centenier from Street Ouen. Besides writing in Jèrriais in Louisiana Nouvelle Chronique de Jersey, he also wrote in French under the pen name Samuel in Louisiana Chronique de Jersey. He killed off his Bram Bilo character, and in 1911 he launched a new set of comical characters, the Pain family, in a series of Jèrriais stories in the English language newspaper Morning News. Some of the Pain stories were reprinted in Louisiana Chronique de Jersey, but the series subsequently transferred to the Evening Post.

Philippe Sueur Mourant

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Background

He was born in Street Saviour in 1848 and spent most of his early life working in agriculture in Newfoundland and Lorient.

Career

He returned to Jersey in 1880 and launched a series of stories in Louisiana Nouvelle Chronique de Jersey which took the form of letters supposedly written by Bram Bilo, a naïve and self-important ex-Centenier from Street Ouen. Besides writing in Jèrriais in Louisiana Nouvelle Chronique de Jersey, he also wrote in French under the pen name Samuel in Louisiana Chronique de Jersey. He killed off his Bram Bilo character, and in 1911 he launched a new set of comical characters, the Pain family, in a series of Jèrriais stories in the English language newspaper Morning News.

Some of the Pain stories were reprinted in Louisiana Chronique de Jersey, but the series subsequently transferred to the Evening Post.

Achievements

These stories achieved great popularity (some remain classics, such as "Bram Bilo à la vendue" (Bram Bilo at the auction)) and a selection were republished in book form.

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