 In the 1830s, Bocage was, with Michel de Bourges, her divorce lawyer and the Swiss writer Charles Didier, amongst George Sand's lovers.A as member of the Comédie-Française, Bocage also played the classical repertoire, and he appeared as late as 1819 in "La Vieillesse de Richelieu".Bocage also was a member of the Théâtre de l'Odéon, becoming its director in 1845.