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See also:LEGOUVE, See also:GABRIEL See also:JEAN See also:BAPTISTE ERNEST See also:WILFRID (1807–1903) , See also:French dramatist, son of the poet Gabriel Legouve (1764–1812), who wrote a See also:pastoral La Mort d'See also:Abel (1793) and a tragedy of Epicharis et Neron, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 5th of See also:February 1807. His See also:mother died in 181o, and almost immediately afterwards his See also:father was removed to a lunatic See also:asylum. The See also:child, however, inherited a considerable See also:fortune, and was carefully educated. Jean See also:Nicolas See also:Bouilly (1763–1842) was his See also:tutor, and See also:early instilled into the See also:young Legouve a See also:passion for literature, to which the example of his father and of his grandfather, J. B. Legouve (1729–1783), predisposed him. As early as 1829 he carried away a See also:prize of the French See also:Academy for a poem on the See also:discovery of See also:printing; and in 1832 he published a curious little See also:volume of verses, entitled See also:Les Morts Bizarres. In those early days Legouve brought out a See also:succession of novels, of which Edith de Falsen enjoyed a considerable success. In 1847 he began the See also:work by which he is best remembered, his contributions to the development and See also:education of the See also:female mind, by lecturing at the See also:College of See also:France on the moral See also:history of See also:women: these discourses were collected into a volume in 1848, and enjoyed a See also:great success. Legouve wrote considerably for the See also:stage, and in 1849 he collaborated with A. E. See also:Scribe in Adrienne See also:Lecouvreur. In 1855 he brought out his tragedy of Medee, the success of which had much to do with his See also:election to the French Academy. He succeeded to the fauteuil of J. A. See also:Ancelot, and was received by See also:Flourens, who dwelt on the plays of Legouve as his See also:principal claim to See also:consideration. As See also:time passed on, however, he became less prominent as a playwright, and more so as a lecturer and propagandist on woman's rights and the advanced education of See also:children, in both of which directions he was a See also:pioneer in French society. His La Femme en France an IIXt" siecle (1864), reissued, much enlarged, in 1878; his Messieurs les enfants (1868), his Conferences Parisiennes (1872), his Nos frlles et nos fibs (1877), and his Une Education de jeune idle (1884) were See also:works of wide-reaching See also:influence in the moral See also:order. In 1886–1887 he published, in two volumes, his Soixante ans de souvenirs, an excellent specimen of autobiography. He was raised in 1887 to the highest grade of the See also:Legion of See also:Honour, and held for many years the See also:post of inspector-See also:general of female education in the See also:national See also:schools. Legouve was always an See also:advocate of See also:physical training. He was See also:long accounted one of the best shots in France, and although, from a conscientious objection, he never fought a See also:duel, he made the See also:art of See also:fencing his lifelong See also:hobby. After the See also:death of See also:Desire See also:Nisard in 1888, Legouve became the " father " of the French Academy. He died on the 14th of See also: Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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