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.
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- Birth Name
- Gabriel Marie Jean Baptiste Legouvé
- Born
- 23 June 1764
- Birthplace
- Paris, France
- Died
- 30 August 1812
- Occupation
- Playwright Poet
- Full name
- Gabriel Marie Jean Baptiste Legouvé.
- Nationality
- France.
- Honours
- Knight of the Legion of Honour.
- Languages
- French.
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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.
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• Birth Name — Gabriel Marie Jean Baptiste Legouvé • Born — 23 June 1764 • Birthplace — Paris, France • Died — 30 August 1812 • Place of death — Paris, France • Occupation — Playwright Poet
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• 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
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