Jean-Nicolas Bouilly

Jean-Nicolas Bouilly (January 24th 1763, close to Turns - April 25th 1842, Paris), writer and playwright French.

It was lawyer and fills various administrative offices of 1790 with 1800. It published several plays which had success:

  • Pierre Large the (1790), music of Grétry;
  • the Abbot of the sword (1799), Op3era Comique of Fanchon Vielleuse ;
  • the Two Days (1800), music of Cherubini.
  • a Madness . (1802), Music of Méhul
  • Héléna (1803), Music of Méhul
  • Valentine of Milan (1807), Music of Méhul (unfinished)

Its name was especially popularized in its writings for childhood:

  • Talks of an old man (1807);
  • Tales with my daughter (1809);
  • the Councils with my daughter (1811);
  • Tales offered to the children of France ;
  • Good-byes of the old storyteller (1835).

With its work Léonore or the marital love , Bouilly is the original librettist of the opera Fidelio of Ludwig van Beethoven.

It published in 1836 memories under the title My recapitulations .

External bond

  • Its parts and their representations on site CÉSAR

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