French playwright, novelist and poet
Émile Calixte Rochard (3 July 1851, Wissembourg – May 1918, Paris) was a 19th–20th-century French playwright, novelist and poet.
Biography.
He made his debut in literature in 1870 with a comedy, "Un Amour de Diane de Poitiers" and volunteered during the Franco-Prussian war of 1870.
A drama critic at "Gil-Blas", codirector of Théâtre du Châtelet (1880–1883) with Félix Duquesnel, director of Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique (1884–1903) then of Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin (1991–1903), his plays were presented on the most important Parisian stages of the 19th century.
Rochard was made a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur 9 July 1892.