Ernest Legouvé

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Ernest Legouvé

Gabriel Jean Baptiste Ernest Wilfrid Legouvé (born February 14, 1807 in Paris , † March 14, 1903 ibid) was a French writer and playwright.

Life

Legouvé was the son of the writer Gabriel-Marie Legouvé . When his mother died in 1810, his father sank into depression and was soon admitted to a psychiatric hospital for good. The playwright Jean Nicolas Bouilly , a friend of his father's, became his guardian and later promoted him as a mentor .

Legouvé won a prize from the Académie française as early as 1827 with a poem on the art of book printing and then appeared as a novelist with the books Max (1833) and Édith de Falsen (1840), but without particular success.

First a series of lectures, which he held as a lecturer at the Collège de France in 1847 on the history of the development of women and later in the works: Histoire morale de la femme (7th edition 1882) and La femme en France au XIX. siècle (1864), aroused the participation of the educated public and turned to it in particular that part of it which from now on forms its most loyal followers, the women of the higher classes.

In 1855, the Académie française elected Legouvé to succeed the writer Jacques-François Ancelot, who died in 1854 ( Fauteuil 30 ).

Four weeks after his 96th birthday, Ernest Legouvé died on March 14, 1903 in Paris, where he found his final resting place.

reception

His non-fiction books were well received by the public as well as by literary critics. These often arose from the topics of his lectures, which Legouvé used to give regularly for many years. With his work Messieurs les enfants , an eulogy for the French child, he won the hearts of all mothers in 1855. But works like La science de la famille (1867) also found an enthusiastic audience.

Legouvé's plays were adapted to contemporary tastes and almost all of them were soon forgotten. The fact that some plays survived was due to the female leading actresses for whom Legouvé had written the roles for them: Mademoiselle Mars ( Louise de Lignerolles ), Elisa Rachel ( Adrienne Lecouvreur ) or Adelaide Ristori ( Médée ). His play Les deux reines de France was written around 1865, but was only released by the censors after the Franco-Prussian War and could then be performed in 1872.

Honors

  • 1845 Chevalier of the Legion of Honor
  • 1864 Officer of the Legion of Honor
  • 1887 Commander of the Legion of Honor

Works (selection)

Autobiography
Poetry
  • Morts bizarre. Poèmes dramatiques . Fournier, Paris 1832.
Novels
  • Max . Guyot, Paris 1833.
  • Edith de Falsen . Dumont, Paris 1840.
  • Béatrix, ou la madonne de l'art . 2nd edition Hachette, Paris 1865.
Plays
  • Bataille de dames . Calman-Lévy, Paris 1882 (Premiere Comédie-Française , Paris March 17, 1851).
    • The women's war. Comedy in three acts . Reclam, Leipzig 1916.
  • Les contes de la reine de Navarre . Lévy, Paris 1851 (Premiere, Comédie-Française, Paris 13 October 1850).
    • The fairy tales of the Queen of Navarre. Comedy in five acts . Reclam, Leipzig 1874.
  • Par droit de conquete. Comédie en trois actes . Lévy, Paris 1855 (Premiere, Comédie-Française, Paris June 7th 1855)
    • Everything through conquest. Comedy in three acts . Lell-Verlag, Vienna 1855.
  • Le pamphlet. Comédie en deux actes . Lévy, Paris 1857 (Premiere Comédie-Française, Paris October 7th 1857)
  • Les doigts de fée. Comédie en cinq actes . Lévy, Paris 1858 (Premiere Comédie-Française, Paris 24 March 1858).
  • Beatrix la madone de l'art. Comédie en cinq actes . Lévy, Paris 1861 (Premiere Théâtre National de l'Odéon , Paris 25 March 1861)
  • Le jeune homme qui ne fait rien. Comédie en un acte . Lévy, Paris 1865 (Premiere Comédie-Française, Paris April 3, 1861)
  • Les deux reines de France. Drame en quatre actes . Lévy, Paris 1873 (Premiere Théâtre-Italien , Paris 25 November 1872)
  • Miss Suzanne. Comédie en quatre actes . Lévy, Paris 1868 (Premiere of the Théâtre du Gymnase Marie Bell , Paris December 3, 1867)
  • Anne de Kerviler. Drame en un acte . Lévy, Paris 1879 (Premiere Comédie-Française, Paris November 27, 1879)
  • Adrienne Lecouvreur. Com'die-drame en cinq actes . Giroux & Vialat, Paris 1849.
  • La cigale chez les fourmis . Lévy, Paris 1860.
    • The cricket with the ants. Comedy in one act . Publishing house of the authors, Frankfurt / M. 1993 (with Eugène Labiche ).
  • La considération (1880).
Non-fiction
  • Les pères et les enfants au XIX. siècle . Paris 1867/69 (2 vol.)
  • Nos fils et nos filles . Hetzel, Paris 1879.
  • L'art de lecture . 2nd edition Hetzel, Paris 1881.
  • La lecture en action . Hetzel, Paris 1881.
  • La lecture en famille . Hetzel, Paris 1883.
Work editions
  • Œuvres de Scribe et Legouvé . Heitz, Strasbourg 1913/15 (3 vol.)
  • Theater complet . Ollendorff, Paris 1900 (3 vol.)

literature

  • Eugenie Petrasch-Wohlgemuth (ed.): The art of representation after Ernest Legouvé, Constant Coquelin, Henri Dupont-Vernon, Charles Samson, Felix Langlois-Fréville . Perles-Verlag, Vienna 1904.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d in collaboration with Eugène Scribe .

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personal data
SURNAME Legouvé, Ernest
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Legouvé, Gabriel Jean Baptiste Ernest Wilfrid (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French writer and theater poet
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 1903
Place of death Paris