Background
Louis Hyacinthe Bouilhet was born on the 27th of March, 1822 in Cany-Barville, France.
Louis Hyacinthe Bouilhet
Louis Hyacinthe Bouilhet was born on the 27th of March, 1822 in Cany-Barville, France.
Louis Hyacinthe Bouilhet was a schoolfellow of Gustave Flaubert, to whom he dedicated his first work, Miloenis (1851), a narrative 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 Louis Hyacinthe Bouilhet secured a success with his first play, Madame de Monlarcy (1856), which ran for seventy-eight nights at the Odéon. And Hélène Peyron (1858) and L'Oncle Million (1860) were also favorably received. But of his other plays, some of them of real merit, only the Conjuration d'Amboise (1866) met with any great success. Flaubert published his posthumous poems with a notice of the author, in 1872. Bouilhet was Flaubert's mentor and guide, and Flaubert never wrote anything without his advice.
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