Gabriel-Marie Legouvé


Gabriel Marie Jean Baptiste Legouvé was an 18th–19th-century French poet and playwright.
Legouvé was born and died in Paris, and was the seventh member elected to occupy seat 4 of the Académie française in 1803.
Legouvé was the father of Ernest Legouvé, later a member of the Académie française, and son of Jean-Baptiste Legouvé who wrote the pastoral La Mort d'Abel and a tragedy Epicharis et Nerón.

Works