Gabriel-Marie Legouvé

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

External links

Gabriel-Marie Legouvé on the site of the Académie française

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