Eugène Bourgeois

also Claude-Eugène-Hippolyte Bourgeois

1818–1847 · French

Birthplace: Morlaix, Kingdom of France

Eugène Bourgeois was a Breton writer and notary, remembered for Le pasteur, ou L'évangile et le foyer, the play he wrote with his relative Émile Souvestre, which in an Italian translation became the source of Piave's libretto for Verdi's Stiffelio. He had a drama of his own, Jeannic le Breton, at the Porte-Saint-Martin in 1841, and wrote Charlotte with Souvestre for the Vaudeville in 1846. He died at twenty-nine, notary at Penzé-en-Taulé, two years before Le pasteur was staged at the Porte-Saint-Martin in 1849.

Source works

Le pasteur, ou L'évangile et le foyer (1849)

Written from

Wikipedia (2026) Eugène Bourgeois. (Accessed: 19 October 2026).
Wikipedia (2026) Stiffelio. (Accessed: 19 October 2026).
Bibliothèque nationale de France (n.d.) Bourgeois, Eugène (1818-1847). Authority record. (Accessed: 19 October 2026).