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
Gabriel Jean Baptiste Ernest Wilfrid Legouvé (; 14 February 180714 March 1903) was a French dramatist.
Biography
Son of the poet Gabriel-Marie Legouvé (1764–1812), he was born in Paris. His mother died in 1810, and almost immediately after ...
(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
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External links
Gabriel-Marie Legouvéon the site of the
Académie française
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1764 births
1812 deaths
Writers from Paris
Knights of the Legion of Honour
18th-century French poets
18th-century French male writers
19th-century French poets
18th-century French dramatists and playwrights
19th-century French dramatists and playwrights
Members of the Académie Française
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