BOUCHOR, MAURICE French poet, was born on Dec. 15 1855, in Paris. He published in succession Chansons joyeuses (1874), Poemes de l'amour et de la seer (1875), Le Faust moderne (1878), in prose and verse, and Les Contes parisiens (188o) in verse. His Aurore (1883) showed a tendency to religious mysticism, which reached its fullest expres sion in Les Symboles (1888; new series, 1895), the most interest ing of his works. Bouchor was a sculptor as well as a poet, and he designed and worked the marionettes used in his imitations of the religious mysteries of the middle ages, 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 Cecile (1892) were produced in Paris at the Theatre des Marionettes. A collection of his works in this genre, Mysteres bibliques et chretiens, appeared in 192o. With the musician, Julien Tiersot (born 1857), he made efforts for the preservation of the French folk-songs, and published Chants po pzclaires pour les ecoles (1897).