Louis Bouilhet

Louis Hyacinthe Bouilhet (27 May 1822 – 18 July 1869) was a French poet and dramatist.

He was born at Cany, Seine Inférieure. He was a schoolfellow of Gustave Flaubert, to whom he dedicated his first work, "Miloenis" (1851), a narrative poem in five cantos, dealing with Roman manners under the emperor Commodus. His volume of poems entitled "Fossiles" attracted considerable attention, on account of the attempt therein to use science as a subject for poetry. These poems were included also in "Festons et astragales" (1859).

As a dramatist he secured a success with his first play, "Madame de Monlarcy" (1856), which ran for seventy-eight nights at the Odéon; and "Hdline Peyron" (1858) and "L'Oncle Million" (1860) were also favorably received. But of his other plays, some of them of real merit, only the "Conjuration d'Amboise" (1866) met with any great success. Bouilhet died on 18 July 1869, at Rouen. Flaubert published his posthumous poems with a notice of the author, in 1872.

References

*1911
* Maxima du Camp, "Souvenirs littéraires" (1882)
* H. de la Ville de Mirmont, "Le Pote Louis Bouilhet" (1888).