journals at which he worked had to employ a special copyist whose sole job was to carry out "Foucher translations". And he was notoriously absent-minded. Once he attended a ball thrown by the Turkish Ambassador, Ve'ly-Pasha. When it came time to leave, he searched his pockets for his coat-check number, but could not find it. The cloak-room attendant was unable to help him, so as the evening wore on Foucher requested the help of three Turkish guests in turn, each more decorated and high-ranking than the previous, but all without success. Finally the attendant said: ""You are a regular nightmare, you had better sit down and wait." Still without his coat at daybreak, Foucher finally decided to go home, where at last he discovered his coat and realized why he had lost his number. Many such stories were told about Foucher, "who took them all amiably and kindly." Foucher was named Chevalier of the Legion of Honor on 29 April 1847. He died in Paris and was buried at Montparnasse Cemetery. Victor Hugo followed the hearse on foot, until eventually the acclamations of the crowds of the Quartier Latin forced him to retire to one of the mourning coaches. According to The New York Times, due to Foucher's "incessant labor", he "left his family in comfortable circumstances." Works Plays Yseul Raimbaud (1830) Saynètes (1832) La Misère dans l'Amour (1832) Les Passions dans le Monde (1833) Caravage (1834) Jeanne de Naples (1837) Don Sébastien de Portugal, tragédie (1839) Les Chevaux du Carrousel (1839) Le Pacte de famine (with Élie Berthet) (1839) Bianca Contadini (1840) La Guerre de l'indépendance en Amérique (1840) La Voisin (1842) Les Deux Perles (1844) Les Étouffeurs de Londres (1847) L'Héritier du Czar (1849) Notre-Dame de Paris (1850) Mademoiselle Aïssé (1854) La Bonne Aventure (1854) La Joconde (1855) Les Rôdeurs du Pont-Neuf (1858) L'Amiral de l'escadre Bleue (1858) L'Institutrice (1861) Delphine Gerbet (1862) Le Carnaval de Naples (1864) La Bande Noire (1866) Operas and ballets-pantomimes Le Vaisseau fantôme, music by Dietsch (1842) Richard en Palestine, music by Adam (1844) Paquita, music by Deldevez (1846) L'Opéra au camp, music by Varney (1854) L'Étoile de Messine, music by Gabrielli (1861) Serialized novels Le Guetteur du Cordouan (1854, 3 vol.) La Vie de plaisir (1860) Nonfiction works Entre cour et jardin: études et souvenirs du théâtre (1867) Les Coulisses du passé (1873) Les Sièges héroïques (1873) References Notes Sources Barbou, Alfred;