Louis Hyacinthe Bouilhet (27 May 1822 - 18 July 1869) was a French poet and dramatist. May 27 is the 147th day (148th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 218 days remaining. ... 1822 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... July 18 is the 199th day (200th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 166 days remaining. ... 1869 is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Poets are authors of poems, or of other forms of poetry such as dramatic verse. ... A dramatist is an author of dramatic compositions, usually plays. ...

He was born at Cany, Seine Infrieure. He 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). Gustave Flaubert Gustave Flaubert (December 12, 1821 – May 8, 1880) is counted among the greatest Western novelists. ... Commodus Marcus Aurelius Commodus Antoninus (originally Lucius Aelius Aurelius Commodus) (August 31, 161–December 31, 192 A.D.) was a Roman Emperor who ruled from 180 to 192 A.D. He is often considered to have been one of the worst Roman Emperors, and his reign brought to a close...

As a dramatist he secured a success with his first play, Madame de Monlarcy (1856), which ran for seventy-eight nights at the Odeon; and Hdline Peyron (1858) and LOncle 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. Bouilhet died on the 18th of July 1869, at Rouen. Flaubert published his posthumous poems with a notice of the author, in 1872. Odeon can refer to different places, generally related to performing arts. ... Location within France Rouen (pronounced in French, sometimes also ) is the historical capital city of Normandy, in northern France, and presently the capital of the Upper Normandy région. ...

See also Maxima du Camp, Souvenirs l~ttraires (1882); and H. de la Ville de Mirmont, Le Pote Louis Bouilhet (1888).

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