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Ernest Legouvé (1807–1903)
Legouvé, Ernest Wilfried (lė-gö-vā’). A French dramatist and story-teller; born at Paris, Feb. 15, 1807; died in Paris, March 14, 1903. He published ‘Moral History of Women’ (7th ed. 1882); ‘Woman in France in the Nineteenth Century’ (1864); ‘Science of the Family’ (1867); ‘Messieurs the Young Folk’ (1868). Meanwhile Legouvé was winning high distinction as a playwright with ‘Louise de Lignerolles’; ‘Adrienne Lecouvreur’; ‘Medea’; ‘By Right of Conquest’; ‘Miss Susanna’; ‘Anne de Kerwiler’; ‘Consideration’; etc. In 1882 he published ‘Recollections of Sixty Years,’ and in 1890 ‘Winter Flowers, Winter Fruits; Story of my Household.’