Biography
Gabriel Marie Jean Baptiste Legouvé was a French poet.
Legouvé was born and died in Paris, and was the seventh member elected to occupy seat 4 of the Académie française in 1803.
Legouvé was the father of Ernest Legouvé (1807–1903) and son of J. B. Legouvé (1729–1783) who wrote the pastoral La Mort d'Abel (1793) and a tragedy Epicharis et Nerón.