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LOUIS HYACINTHE BOUILHET (1822-1869)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 317 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LOUIS HYACINTHE See also:BOUILHET (1822-1869)  , See also:French poet and dramatist, was See also:born at Cany, See also:Seine Inferieure, on the 27th of May 1822 . He was a schoolfellow of Gustave See also:Flaubert, to whom he dedicated his first See also:work, Meloenis (1851), a narrati .e poem in five cantos, dealing with See also:Roman See also:manners under the See also:emperor See also:Commodus . His See also:volume of poems entitled Fossiles attracted considerable See also:attention, on See also:account of the See also:attempt therein to use See also:science as a subject for See also:poetry . These poems were included also in Festons et astragales (1859) As a dramatist he secured a success with his first See also:play, Madame de Montarcy (1856), which ran for seventy-eight nights at the Odeon; and Helene Peyron (1858) and L'Oncle Million (186o) were also favourably received . But of his other plays, some of them of real merit, only the Conjuration d'See also:Amboise (1866) met with any See also:great success . See also:Bouilhet died on the 18th of See also:July 1869, at See also:Rouen . Flaubert published his See also:posthumous poems with a See also:notice of the author, in 1872 . See also Maxime du See also:Camp, Souvenirs litteraires 01882) ; and H. de la Ville de Mirmont, Le Poete See also:Louis Bouilhet (1888) .

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