Louis Bouilhet

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Louis Bouilhet by Étienne Carjat , 1864
Grave of Louis Bouilhet on the Cimetière Monumental in Rouen

Louis-Hyacinthe Bouilhet (born May 27, 1822 in Cany ( Département Seine-Maritime ), † July 18, 1869 in Rouen ) was a French poet and playwright .

life and work

Louis-Hyacinthe Bouilhet was a schoolmate of Gustave Flaubert , with whom he was friends. He gave up a study of medicine that he had started in order to be able to follow his inclination for poetry. He now lived alternately in Rouen and Nantes and occasionally briefly in Paris . He died on July 18, 1869 at the age of 47 in Rouen as a librarian in that city.

He established his reputation as a lyric poet with two poems that appeared first in the Revue de Paris and later in separate prints. The first was Melaenis, conte romain (1851), a moral painting from Roman life at the time of Emperor Commodus . This work was followed by Les fossiles (1851), a presentation of the history of the earth from its beginning to its presumed fall, and aroused admiration because it chose a scientific theme as the material for poetic representation. Bouilhet's smaller poems were published collectively under the title Poésies. Festons et astragales (1859).

Bouilhet's drama Madame de Montarcy , performed at the Odéontheater in 1856 , received lively applause because it revived the metric form that had long been lost on the French stage. The versed dramas Hélène Peyron (1858) and in particular La conjuration d'Amboise (1866) found even more approval . These tragedies are characterized by a wealth of images, flourishing style and brilliant rhythm, but lack a uniform plan and often lack of morality. His comedy L'oncle million (1861, in verse) and his drama Faustine (1864) - the only one of his plays written in prose - suffer from the same “mistakes”, but most of all his posthumous drama Mademoiselle Aïssé (1872). All three were not well received, and his drama Dolorès (1862) was also unsuccessful.

Dernières chansons (1872; in a new edition, with the Festons and Melaenis 1881) were also published from Bouilhet's estate . Marie Claire Bancquart published Bouilhet's letters to Louise Colet in 1967 .

literature

Remarks

  1. ↑ Louis Bouilhet . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 3, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 273.
personal data
SURNAME Bouilhet, Louis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bouilhet, Louis-Hyacinthe (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French poet and playwright
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Cany ( Seine-Maritime Department )
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 1869
Place of death Rouen