actor went to play for the Théâtre de Belleville, and he managed to show preeminence in his former role as Buridan. Shortly before his death, Bocage created the role of the old Duke in Les Beaux Messieurs de Bois-Doré at the Théâtre de l’Ambigu-Comique. He also appeared in Jarvis l’honnête homme, Henri Hamelin and Le Marchand de Londres at the Gymnase. The National Museum of the Château de Compiègne houses two prints of Bocage by Alphonse-Léon Noël and Benjamin Roubaud. When Bocage's theatrical wardrobe was put up for sale, Virginie Déjazet asked for the dagger that he had used in Alexandre Dumas' Antony, as a most precious souvenir. French writer Paul Bocage was his nephew. References Sources Gustave Vapereau, Dictionnaire universel des littératures, Paris, Hachette, 1876, p. 277. 1801 births 1862 deaths Actors from Rouen French male stage actors Troupe of the Comédie-Française 19th-century French male actors