BOUILHET, LOUIS HYACINTHE French poet and dramatist, was born at Cany, Seine Inferieure, and was a schoolfellow of Gustave Flaubert. His Fossiles (1856) 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 (5859). His first play, Madame de Montarcy (i856), ran for 78 nights at the Odeon; and Helene Peyron (1858) and L'Oncle Million (186o) 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 suc cess. Bouilhet died at Rouen, and Flaubert published his posthu mous poems with a notice of the author, in 1872.
See also Maxine du Camp, Souvenirs litteraires (1882) ; H. de la Ville de Mirmont, Le Poete Louis Bouilhet (i888) ; and E. Frere, Louis Bouilhet (1908).