Joseph Bouchardy (1810–1870) was an author, playwright, engraver, and member of the Jeune France/ Bouzingo and

Cénacle Cénacle is the name given to a Parisian literary group of varying constituency that began about 1826 to gather around Charles Nodier. The group sought to revive in French literature the old monarchical spirit, the spirit of medieval mystery an ...

movements. The enormous popularity of his plays earned him the nickname "The King of the Boulevard." In 1868 he was given the rank of chevalier from the

Legion d'Honneur The National Order of the Legion of Honour ( ), formerly the Imperial Order of the Legion of Honour (), is the highest and most prestigious French national order of merit, both military and civil. Currently consisting of five classes, it was ...

.. He is the brother of Anatole Bouchardy. According to

Théophile Gautier Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier ( , ; 30 August 1811 – 23 October 1872) was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic. While an ardent defender of Romanticism, Gautier's work is difficult to classify and rema ...

, he died unhappily: "He had become a gaunt old man, broken, destroyed by grief, and by the sadness of authors who have experienced the intoxication of success, and whose popularity retires without being able to appreciate the reasons why it went away."

References

*http://bouzingo.blogspot.com/p/timeline.html *http://www.sylvie-lecuyer.net/lepetitcenacle.html *http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095520411

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* Writers from Paris 1810 births 1870 deaths 19th-century French dramatists and playwrights 19th-century French male writers {{France-writer-stub