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
marionette
A marionette (; french: marionnette, ) is a puppet controlled from above using wires or strings depending on regional variations. A marionette's puppeteer is called a marionettist. Marionettes are operated with the puppeteer hidden or reveale ...
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
folk song
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s, and published ''Chants populaires pour les écoles'' (1897).
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19th-century French poets
1855 births
1929 deaths
Artists from Paris
19th-century French sculptors
French male sculptors
French male poets
20th-century French sculptors
20th-century French male artists
19th-century French male writers
20th-century French male writers
19th-century French male artists