Gabriel-Marie Legouvé

Gabriel-Marie Legouvé
Gabriel-Marie Legouvé
Born	Gabriel Marie Jean Baptiste Legouvé 23 June 1764 Paris, France
Died	30 August 1812(1812-08-30) (aged 48) Paris, France
Occupation(s)	Playwright Poet

Gabriel Marie Jean Baptiste Legouvé (23 June 1764 – 30 August 1812) was an 18th–19th-century French poet and playwright.

Legouvé was born and died in Paris, and was the seventh member elected to occupy seat 4 of the Académie française in 1803.

Legouvé was the father of Ernest Legouvé (1807–1903), later a member of the Académie française, and son of Jean-Baptiste Legouvé (1729–1783) who wrote the pastoral La Mort d'Abel (1793) and a tragedy Epicharis et Nerón.

Works

• 1784: Polyxène, tragedy
• 1786: La Mort des fils de Brutus, héroïde
• 1792: La mort d'Abel, three-act tragedy
• 1794: Épicharis et Néron, tragedy
• 1795: Quintus Fabius, tragedy
• 1798: Laurence, tragedy
• 1798: La Sépulture, elegy
• 1799: Étéocle et Polynice, tragedy
• 1799: Les Souvenirs d'une demoiselle sodomisée, elegy
• 1800: La Mélancolie, elegy
• 1801: Le Mérite des femmes, poem
• 1801: Christophe Morin
• 1806: La Mort d'Henri IV, tragedy
• 1813: Les souvenirs ou les avantages de la Mémoire

References

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Legouvé, Gabriel Jean Baptiste Ernest Wilfrid". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 380.

External links

• Gabriel-Marie Legouvé on the site of the Académie française
• Works by or about Gabriel-Marie Legouvé at the Internet Archive
• Works by Gabriel-Marie Legouvé at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)