Henri Boucherat
Henri Boucherat 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 and the Cote Bleue, it was only alongside his stock market activities that he became a playwright and songwriter.He is buried alongside his wife at the Père Lachaise Cemetery.
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