LEGOUIS, 1E-goo'e, Emile, French literary critic: b. Honfluer, Calvados, 1861. He studied at the universities of Caen and Paris, was appointed lecturer and professor at the Uni versity of Lyons in 1885 and in 1904 became professor of English language and literature at the Sorbonne. He was exchange professor at Harvard in 1912-13. Author of Gray; Choix de poesies' (1887) ; ' general Beaupuy) with Bussiere, G. (1891) ; 'La Jeun esse de William Wordsworth' (1896; Eng. trans., 1:: 7) ; poimes de Wordsworth> (1896) ; choisis de litterature an glaise' (1905) ; 'Defense de la poesie Iran caise a l'usage des lecteurs anglais' (1912) ; (William Wordsworth' in History of English Literature' (Vol. XII, 1914), etc.
LEGOUVE, Gabriel Ernest Wilfrid, French dramatist and miscellaneous writer : b. Paris, 15 Feb. 1807; d. 14 March 1903. In 1827 he won a prize of the Academy with a poem on the art of printing, (Decouverte de l'imprimerie.' While instructor in the
College de France 1847, he lectured on the history of woman's development ; and later published 'Moral History of Women' (7th ed., 1882), and (Woman in France in the 19th Century' (1864). These works were received with great favor, and were followed by of the Family' (1867), and (Messieurs the Young Folk> (1868). Meanwhile Legouve was winning high distinction as a playwright with 'Louise de Lignerolles) • Lecouvreur> with Scribe (1849) ; ; Right of Conquest' ; Suzanne' (1867) ; 'Anne de Kerwilee (1879) ; (Consideration,' etc. In 1882 he published (Recollections of Sixty Years,' and in 1890 (Winter Flower, Winter Fruits: Story of my Household.' In 1885 he became a member of the French Academy.