Henry Bocage

Henry Bocage (1835 – 14 October 1917) was a French playwright of the second half of the 19th century. A nephew of the actor Bocage and younger brother of Paul Bocage, Hanry Bocage wrote comedies as well as novels. An engineer by profession, he authored, alone or in collaboration, several successful plays on the Parisians stages of his time. Among them are: comedies 1869: l’Architecte de ces dames 1871: la Canne de Damoclès 1874: Une fille d’Ève, , with Raymond Deslandes 1880: les Trois Bougies 1884: En partie fine 1890: la Vie à deux opéras comiques 1880: la Girouette, with Étienne Hémery, music by À. Coedès, 1881: les Poupées de l’infante, music by Grisar. 19th-century French dramatists and playwrights 19th-century French novelists French librettists 1835 births 1917 deaths