Charles Hubert Millevoye

Charles Hubert Millevoye (24 December 1782 in Abbeville – 12 August 1816 in Paris) was a French poet several times honored by the Académie Française.

His poem beginning "Dans les bois l'amoureux Myrtil" (La Fauvette) is also well known as set to music in Vieille Chanson by Georges Bizet,[1] as well as Le Mancenillier, as referred to in Meyerbeer's L'Africaine and Louis Moreau Gottschalk's serenade for piano Le Mancenillier, Op.

[4] Millevoye married Margaret Flora Delattre on 31 August 1813 in Abbeville and only had one child, Charles Alfred (1813–1891), who served as magistrate in charge of the judicial organization of Savoie in 1860.

Literary critic Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve writes the following about him: "Between Delille who completes and Lamartine who preludes, […] a pale and soft star shone for a moment: it is he.

Besides his poems, Millevoye also made fresh translations of the Iliad, the Bucolica of Virgil and some dialogues of Lucian of Samosata.