Henri Boucherat

Henri Boucherat (? – died after 192)[1] was a French playwright and chansonnier.

Biography

The son of a wheelwright from Noyers who became a coachbuilder in Paris, Henri Boucherat was initially a journalist specializing in finance. Managing director of the Journal des rentes et valeurs, the Cote internationale des coupons[2] and the Cote Bleue ,[3] it was only alongside his stock market activities that he became a playwright[4] and songwriter.

He is buried alongside his wife (born Jeanne Léonie Loiseau in Chaumont, Haute-Marne on May 12, 1860, and died in Paris 9th arrondissement on April 5, 1929) at the Père Lachaise Cemetery.[5]

Works

  • 1884: Mon ami Pierrot, review of the year 1884
  • 1885: Théodora à Montluçon, one-act parody in eight tableaux, with Guillaume Livet
  • 1898: Le Diable au moulin, one-act operetta, with Henry Moreau
  • 1898: Métempsycose ! Lettre à une parisienne, music by Laurent Halet
  • 1898: Y a pas d'erreur, revue in two acts and four tableaux, with Moreau
  • 1898: Filles d'Arles ! Souvenirs de Province, song, with Jules Gaillard, music by Étienne Jacquier
  • 1900: Le Medjidié, one-act vaudeville, with Moreau
  • 1900: Ohé ! la Province, vaudeville-revue in 1 act and two tableaux, with Moreau

References

  1. ^ He was still listed in the Annuaire international des lettres by Jean Azaïs on that year.
  2. ^ Sociétés financières. H. Boucherat et Cie., Le Droit financier, 5 janvier 1889
  3. ^ Le Monde de la Finance. La Justice, 13 juillet 1905
  4. ^ Liste générale alphabétique des membres stagiaires au 31 décembre 1895. Annuaire de la Société des auteurs et compositeurs dramatiques, exercice 1895-1896
  5. ^ Archives de Paris voir les registres annuels et journalier d'inhumations