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French dramatist

Gabriel Jean Baptiste Ernest Wilfrid Legouvé (pronounced[ɡabʁijɛlʒɑ̃batistɛʁnɛstwilfʁidləɡuve]; 14 February &#;&#; 14 March ) was a French dramatist.

Biography

Son of the poet Gabriel-Marie Legouvé (–), he was born in Paris. His mother died in , and almost immediately afterwards his father was removed to a lunatic asylum. The child, however, inherited a considerable fortune, and was carefully educated. Jean Nicolas Bouilly (–) was his tutor, and instilled in the young Legouvé a passion for literature, to which the example of his father and of his grandfather, Jean-Baptiste Legouvé (–), predisposed him.

As early as he carried away a prize of the Académie française for a poem on the discovery of printing; and in he published a curious little volume of verses, entitled Les Morts Bizarres. In those early days Legouvé brought out a succession of novels, of which Édith de Falsen enjoyed a considerable success. In he began the w Short biography sample!