Louis Bouilhet

Louis Hyacinthe Bouilhet (27 May 1821 – 18 July 1869) was a French poet and dramatist.

He was a schoolfellow of Gustave Flaubert, to whom he dedicated his first work, Melaenis, conte romain (1851), a narrative poem in five cantos dealing with Roman manners under the emperor Commodus.

His volume of poems Fossiles attracted considerable attention for being an attempt to make science a subject for poetry.

As a dramatist he was successful with his first play, Madame de Monlarcy (1856), which ran for 28 nights at the Odéon; Hélène Peyron (1858) and L'Oncle Million (1860) were also favorably received.

Of his other plays, only Conjuration d'Amboise (1866) met with any real success.

Memorial of Louis Bouilhet at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rouen