LOUIS HYACINTHE

See also:

• LOUIS HYACINTHE BOUILHET (1822-1869)

BOUILHET (1822-1869)  , French poet and dramatist, was born at Cany, Seine Inferieure, on the 27th of May 1822 . He was a schoolfellow of Gustave Flaubert, to whom he dedicated his first work, Meloenis (1851), a narrati .e 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 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'Amboise (1866) met with any great success . Bouilhet died on the 18th of July 1869, at Rouen . Flaubert published his posthumous poems with a notice of the author, in 1872 . See also Maxime du Camp, Souvenirs litteraires 01882) ; and H. de la Ville de Mirmont, Le Poete Louis Bouilhet (1888) .