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 Gabriel Jean Baptiste Ernest Wilfrid Legouvé (; 14 February 180714 March 1903) was a French dramatist. Biography Son of the poet Gabriel-Marie Legouvé (1764–1812), he was born in Paris. His mother died in 1810, and almost immediately after ...

(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''

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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 {{France-poet-stub