MAURICE BOUCHOR
\mˈɒɹɪs bˈa͡ʊt͡ʃə], \mˈɒɹɪs bˈaʊtʃə], \m_ˈɒ_ɹ_ɪ_s b_ˈaʊ_tʃ_ə]\
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A French poet; born at Paris, 1855. At the age of 19 years he published a volume of "Merry Lays", which was followed by "Poems of Love and the Sea" (1875); "The Modern Faust" (1878); "Stories of Paris in Rhyme"; and "The Dawn", esteemed his best work. He attempted to revive, but in no reverential spirit, the mediaeval "mystery play" in 1889, with "Tobit" and "Nativity"; the "actors" being lay figures of life size, while the author and his cronies spoke "the lines" from behind the wings.
By Charles Dudley Warner
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