Jean-Guillaume-Antoine Cuvelier (15 January 1766 – 25 May 1824) was a French playwright, nicknamed the Crébillon of melodrama.
He first entered the military career then turned to theatre and was a rival of René Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt.
From 1793 to 1824, he authored an incredible number of melodramas, dramas, pantomimes, etc.
many of which were met with great success: the number is more than 110 including the Fille sauvage, the Main de Fer, the Fille mendiante, Jean Sbogar, Machabées, and the Mort de Kleber.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bouillet, Marie-Nicolas; Chassang, Alexis, eds.