List of Famous people with last name Bouilly

Jean-Nicolas Bouilly

First Name Jean-Nicolas
Died on April 14, 1842

Jean-Nicolas Bouilly was a French playwright, librettist, children's writer, and politician of the French Revolution. He is best known for writing a libretto, supposedly based on a true story, about a woman who disguises herself as a man to rescue her husband from prison, which formed the basis of Beethoven's opera Fidelio as well as a number of other operas.

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