Gabriel-Marie Legouvé

Gabriel Marie Jean Baptiste Legouvé (23 June 1764 – 30 August 1812) 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 (1807–1903), later a member of the Académie française, and son of Jean-Baptiste Legouvé (1729–1783) who wrote the pastoral La Mort d'Abel (1793) and a tragedy Epicharis et Nerón.

Works 1784: Polyxène, tragedy 1786: La Mort des fils de Brutus, héroïde 1792: La mort d'Abel, three-act tragedy 1794: Épicharis et Néron, tragedy 1795: Quintus Fabius, tragedy 1798: Laurence, tragedy 1798: La Sépulture, elegy 1799: Étéocle et Polynice, tragedy 1799: Les Souvenirs d'une demoiselle sodomisée, elegy 1800: La Mélancolie, elegy 1801: Le Mérite des femmes, poem 1801: Christophe Morin 1806: La Mort d'Henri IV, tragedy 1813: Les souvenirs ou les avantages de la Mémoire