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LOUIS HYACINTHE BOUILHET (1822-1869), French poet. and dramatist, was born at Cany, Seine Inferieure, on the 27th of May 1822. He was a schoolfellow of Gustave Flaubert, to. whom he dedicated his first work, Meloenis (1851), a narrative poem in five cantos, dealing with Roman manners under the emperor Commodus. His volume of poems entitled Fossiles. attracted considerable attention, on account of the attempt therein to use science as a subject for poetry. These poems were included also in Festons et astragales (1859). As a dramatist. he secured a success with his first play, Madame de Montarcy. (1856), which ran for seventy-eight nights at the Odeon; and. Helene Peyron (1858) and L'Oncle Million (1860) were also favourably received. But of his other plays, some of them of real merit, only the Conjuration d'Amboise (1866) met with: any great success. Bouilhet died on the 18th of July 1869, at Rouen. Flaubert published his posthumous poems with a notice. of the author, in 1872.

See also Maxime du Camp, Souvenirs litteraires (1882); and H. de la Ville de Mirmont, Le Poete Louis Bouilhet (1888). [[Bouille, Francois Claude Amour, Marquis De]] (1739-1800), French general. He served in the Seven Years' War, and as governor in the Antilles conducted operations against the English in the War of American Independence. On his, return to France he was named governor of the Three Bishoprics, of Alsace and of Franche-Comte. Hostile to the Revolution,, he had continual quarrels with the municipality of Metz, and brutally suppressed the military insurrections at Metz and Nancy, which had been provoked by the harsh conduct of certain noble officers. Then he proposed to Louis XVI. to take refuge in a frontier town where an appeal could be made to other nations against the revolutionists. When this project failed as a result of Louis XVI.'s arrest at Varennes, Bouille went to Russia to induce Catherine II. to intervene in favour of the king, and then to England, where he died in 1800, after serving in various. royalist attempts on France. He left Memoires sur la Revolution francaise depuis son origine jusqu'a la retraite du duo de Brunswick (Paris, 1801) .