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BOUCHOR, MAURICE (1855– )

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BOUCHOR, See also:MAURICE (1855– ) , See also:French poet, was See also:born on the 15th of See also:December 1855 in See also:Paris. He published in See also:succession Chansons joyeuses (1874), Fames de l'amour et de la mer (1875), Le See also:Faust moderne (1878) in See also:prose and See also:verse, and See also:Les Conies parisiens (1880) in verse. His Aurore (1883) showed a tendency to religious See also:mysticism, which reached its fullest expression in Les Symboles (1888; new See also:series, 1895), the most interesting of his See also:works. Bouchor (whose See also:brother, See also:Joseph See also:Felix Bouchor, b. 1853, became well known as an artist) was a sculptor as well as a poet, and he designed and worked the figures used in his charming pieces as See also:marionettes, the words being recited or chanted by himself or his See also:friends behind the scenes. These See also:miniature dramas on religious subjects, Tobie (1889), See also:Noel (1890) and Sainte Cecile (1892), were produced in Paris at the See also:Theatre See also:des Marionnettes. A one-See also:act verse See also:drama by Bouchor, See also:Conte de Noel, was played at the Theatre See also:Francais in 1895, but Dieu le veut (1888) was not produced. In See also:conjunction with the musician See also:Julien Tiersot (b. 1857), he made efforts for the preservation ofthe French folk-songs, and published Chants populaires pour les ecoles (1897).

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