author
Gustave Nicole
b. 1835
A 19th-century French journalist and writer from Fécamp, he is remembered for vivid books on Normandy and for reporting from Egypt at the time of the Suez Canal's inauguration.
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Voyage des souverains: Inauguration du Canal de Suez
by Gustave Nicole
About the author
Born in Fécamp on October 31, 1835, Gustave-Eugène Nicole was a French writer and journalist connected with Normandy's literary and newspaper world. Records from Médias 19 describe him as a writer, journalist, and later editor, while the Bibliothèque nationale de France lists him as an author born in 1835.
Nicole began publishing in the 1860s and wrote works including Sur la plage, Étretat... as well as Voyage des souverains: Inauguration du Canal de Suez. His career also took him to Egypt, where he worked in Cairo and Alexandria and was associated with the newspaper L'Égypte.
He died in Fécamp on June 11, 1889. Although he is not widely known today, his surviving books and biographical records show a writer interested in place, travel, and the major events of his century.