JEAN

See also:

• NICOLAS
• NICOLAS, SIR NICHOLAS HARRIS (1799–1848)

NICOLAS

See also:

• JEAN NICOLAS BOUILLY (1763-1842)

BOUILLY (1763-1842)  , French author, was born near Tours on the 24th of January 1763 . At the outbreak of the Revolution he held office under the new government, and had a considerable share in the organization of primary education . In 1799 he retired from public life to devote himself,to literature . His numerous works include the musical comedy, Pierre le Grand (1790), for Gretry's music, and the opera, Les Deux Journees (1800), music by Cherubini; also L'Abbe de l'epee (1800), and some other plays; and Causeries d'un vieillard (1807), Contes a ma fille Wog), and Les Adieux du vieux conteur (1835) . His Leonore (1798) formed the basis of the libretto of the i'idelio of Beethoven . Bouilly died in Paris on the 14th of April 1842 . See Bouilly, Mes recapitulations (3 vols., 1836—1837) ; E . Legouve, Soixante ans de souvenir (1;" partie, 1886) .