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Paul Bocage

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Paul Auguste Tousez , known as Paul Bocage , (5 October 1824, in Paris ? 25 September 1887, in Paris) was a French librettist , novelist and dramatist .

Nephew of the famous 19th century actor Bocage (Pierre-Martinien Tousez), he first wrote, using the collective pseudonym "Desire Hazard" with Octave Feuillet , who had been his classmate at College Louis-le-Grand , the novel Le Grand Vieillard (1845), Echec et mat , a comedy of five acts, played at the Odeon in 1846, Palma, ou la Nuit du vendredi saint , a drama of five acts, played at the Theatre de la Porte Saint-Martin in 1847, La Vieillesse de Richelieu , a comedy of five acts, played the Comedie-Francaise in 1849 ; York , a comedy-vaudeville, played at the Palais-Royal in 1852.

Paul Bocage also wrote, jointly with Joseph Mery , Maitre Wolframb , a libretto for the Theatre Lyrique (1855), and, jointly with Theodore Cogniard , Janot chez les Sauvages , a vaudeville of one act, played at the Theatre des Varietes .

He also attributes a share in Le Chariot d'enfant , a drama of five acts, by Mery and Gerard de Nerval and Alexandre Dumas 's Romulus (1854), Les Mariages du pere Olifus (1861) et Les Mille et un fantomes (1849).

Bocage wrote as well novelty items, using the title "Bric-a-Brac", for the magazine Le Mousquetaire . The authorship of Les Mohicans de Paris , a long novel serialized in that publication is also attributed to him. Finally, he published in 1860 les Puritains de Paris and la Duchesse de Mauves (1860, 4 vols. in-8).

References [ edit ]

  • William Duckett, Dictionnaire de la conversation et de la lecture , Paris, Michel Levy, 1855, p. 574.