Louis Bouilhet
Playwright, Author
1822 – 1869
Who was Louis Bouilhet?
Louis Hyacinthe Bouilhet was a French poet and dramatist.
He was born at Cany, Seine Inférieure. He was a schoolfellow of Gustave Flaubert, to whom he dedicated his first work, Miloenis, a narrative poem in five cantos, dealing with Roman manners under the emperor Commodus. His volume of poems entitled Fossiles attracted considerable attention, on account of the attempt therein to use science as a subject for poetry. These poems were included also in Festons et astragales.
As a dramatist he secured a success with his first play, Madame de Monlarcy, which ran for seventy-eight nights at the Odéon; and Hélène Peyron and L'Oncle Million were also favorably received. But of his other plays, some of them of real merit, only the Conjuration d'Amboise met with any great success. Bouilhet died on 18 July 1869, at Rouen. Flaubert published his posthumous poems with a notice of the author, in 1872.
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- Born
- May 27, 1822
France - Nationality
- France
- Profession
- Died
- Jul 18, 1869
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on July 23, 2013
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