Ernest Legouvé
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Gabriel Jean Baptiste Ernest Wilfrid Legouvé (pronounced
Biography
Son of the poet
As early as 1829 he carried away a prize of the
Legouvé wrote considerably for the stage, and in 1849 he collaborated with
As time passed on, however, he became less prominent as a playwright, and more so as a lecturer and propagandist on women's rights and the advanced education of children, in both of which directions he was a pioneer in French society. His La Femme en France au XIXe siècle (1864), reissued, much enlarged, in 1878; his Messieurs les enfants (1868), his Conférences Parisiennes (1872), his Nos filles et nos fils (1877), and his Une Éducation de jeune fille (1884) were works of wide-reaching influence in the moral order.[1]
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
Works
- Adrienne Lecouvreur (1849)
- Soixante ans de souvenirs (1886–1887), translated as Sixty Years of Recollections (1893) by Albert D. Vandam[2]
References
- ^ a b c d e Chisholm 1911.
- ^ Marzials, Frank T. (9 September 1893). "Review of Sixty Years of Recollections by M. Ernest Legouvé, trans. by Albert D. Vandam". The Academy. 44 (1114): 206–207.
Attribution:
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Legouvé, Gabriel Jean Baptiste Ernest Wilfrid". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 380. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the