Louis Hyacinthe Bouilhet

Plaats: Cany

Geboren: 1821

Dood: 1869

Biografie:

Louis Hyacinthe Bouilhet was a French poet and dramatist. He was born in Cany, Seine Inférieure (now Cany-Barville) in 1821. Bouilhet was a schoolfellow of Gustave Flaubert, to whom he dedicated his first work, Melaenis, conte romain (1851), a narrative poem in five cantos dealing with Roman manners under the emperor Commodus. His volume of poems Fossiles attracted considerable attention for being an attempt to make science a subject for poetry. As a dramatist, he was successful with his first play, Madame de Monlarcy (1856), which ran for 28 nights at the Odéon. Hélène Peyron (1858) and L'Oncle Million (1860) were also favorably received. Of his other plays, only Conjuration d'Amboise (1866) met with any real success. Bouilhet died on 18 July 1869, at Rouen. Flaubert published his posthumous poems with a notice by the author in 1872.