Maurice Bouchor (18 November 1855 – 18 January 1929) was a French poet. He was born in Paris. He published in succession ''Chansons joyeuses'' (1874), ''Poèmes de l'amour et de la mer'' (1875), ''Le Faust moderne'' (1878) in prose and verse, and ''Les Contes parisiens'' (1880) in verse. His ''Aurore'' (1883) showed a tendency to religious mysticism, which reached its fullest expression in ''Les Symboles'' (1888; new series, 1895), the most interesting of his works. He contributed to the satirical weekly '' Le Courrier français''. Bouchor (whose brother,

Joseph-Félix Bouchor Joseph-Félix Bouchor (15 September 1853 – 27 October 1937) was a French painter noted for his portraits and his Orientalist themes. Biography The artist was born in Paris. He studied at the Beaux-Arts. Joseph-Felix Bouchor exhibited his ...

, 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

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s, the words being recited or chanted by himself or his friends behind the scenes. These miniature dramas on religious subjects, ''Tobie'' (1889), ''Noel'' (1890) and ''Sainte Cécile'' (1892), were produced in Paris at the Théâtre des Marionnettes. A one-act verse drama by Bouchor, ''Conte de Noël'', was played at the Théâtre Français in 1895, but ''Dieu le veut'' (1888) was not produced. In conjunction with the musician

Julien Tiersot Julien Tiersot (5 July 1857, in Bourg-en-Bresse (Rhône-Alpes) – 10 August 1936, in Paris), was a French musicologist, composer and a pioneer in ethnomusicology. Biography Tiersot was first keenly interested in popular French music, on which ...

(b. 1857), he made efforts for the preservation of the French

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s, and published ''Chants populaires pour les écoles'' (1897).

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