Gabriel-Marie Legouvé
French poet
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| Intro | French poet | ||
| Places | France | ||
| was | Writer Poet Playwright | ||
| Work field | Film, TV, Stage & Radio Literature | ||
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| Birth | 23 June 1764, Paris, Île-de-France, France | ||
| Death | 30 August 1812Paris, Île-de-France, France (aged 48 years) | ||
| Star sign | Cancer | ||
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Biography
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