Nicolas Bouchaud reads Jean-François Champollion's opening lecture in public

For an exceptional evening in the Marguerite de Navarre amphitheatre at the Collège de France, actor Nicolas Bouchaud reads Jean-François Champollion's opening lecture in public, as part of the exhibition " Champollion 1822. Et l'Égypte ancienne retrouva la parole ".

Delivered on May 10 1831 under the title " Discours d'ouverture du cours d'archéologie ", it inaugurates the series of eight lessons that Jean-François Champollion delivered at the Collège de France, before his untimely death on March 4 1832.

The evening is presented by Professor Jean-Luc Fournet, who organized the event.

Free admission, subject to availability.

Nicolas Bouchaud

Nicolas Bouchaud has been an actor since 1991. He first worked under the direction of Étienne Pommeret, Philippe Honoré... then met Didier-Georges Gabily, who hired him for the performances of Des cercueils de zinc. This was followed by Enfonçures, Gibiers du temps, Dom Juan/Chimères et autres bestioles. He also performed with Yann-Joël Collin in Bertolt Brecht's Homme pour homme and L'Enfant d'éléphant, Shakespeare's Henri IV ; Claudine Hunault Trois Nôs irlandais by William Butler Yeats ; Hubert Colas, Bertolt Brecht's Dans la jungle des villes ; Bernard Sobel, Paul Claudel's L'Otage ; Rodrigo Garcia, Roi Lear, Borges + Goya ; Théâtre Dromesko : L'Utopie fatigue les escargots ; Christophe Perton : Le Belvédère by Odon von Horvath...

Jean-François Sivadier directed him in : Noli me tangere, La Folle Journée ou le Mariage de Figaro by Beaumarchais, La Vie de Galilée by Bertolt Brecht, Italienne scène et orchestre, La Mort de Danton by Georg Büchner, Le Roi Lear by Shakespeare, La Dame de chez Maxim by Georges Feydeau and in 2013 in Le Misanthrope by Molière, notably on the stage of the Théâtre de l'Odéon, for which he received the Best Actor award from the Syndicat de la critique.

Nicolas Bouchaud co-stars with Gaël Baron, Valérie Dréville, Jean-François Sivadier and Charlotte Clamens in Paul Claudel's Partage de Midi, first performed at the 2008 Avignon Festival.

At the 2011 Avignon Festival, Frédéric Fisbach directed him in Strindberg's Mademoiselle Julie, alongside Juliette Binoche. The show toured the following season at the Comédie de Reims, Théâtre de Lorient and Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe. To mark the fortieth anniversary of Théâtre Ouvert, Lectures de Traversée is organized at the Avignon Festival.

At the Théâtre du Rond-Point, in 2010 and 2011, as part of the Festival d'Automne à Paris, he performs La Loi du marcheur, a show he created with Éric Didry, based on Serge Daney's interviews with Régis Debray.

In 2012, as part of the Festival d'Automne à Paris, he directed Deux Labiche de moins based on Le Mystère de la rue Rousselet and Un mouton à l'entresol by Eugène Labiche at the Théâtre de l'Aquarium.

In 2013, he shared the stage with Judith Henry for Projet Luciole, conceived and directed by Nicolas Truong at the Avignon Festival (touring 14-15).

In November 2013 at La Comédie - Scène nationale/Clermont-Ferrand, he created Un métier idéal, directed by Eric Didry. The project is adapted from the book by John Berger and Jean Mohr by Nicolas Bouchaud, Éric Didry and Véronique Timsit. Un métier idéal and La Loi du marcheur were revived at the Théâtre du Carreau du Temple in 2015. He worked again with director Éric Didry on Massimo Sgorbani's Le Discours de Monsieur le député (2014) and Paul Celan's Le Méridien, performed at the Théâtre national de Strasbourg in October 2015.

In 2015, he reprised his role in La Vie de Galilée directed by Jean-François Sivadier at the Théâtre Le Montfort in Paris. In March 2016, he played Dom Juan at the Théâtre national de Bretagne, directed by Jean-François Sivadier. At the Festival d'Avignon 2016, he played and collaborated on the creation of Interview alongside Judith Henry and Nicolas Truong, who conceived and directed the show. This was followed by a tour during the 16-17 and 17-18 seasons.

He continued his collaboration with Véronique Timsit and Éric Didry for the creation of Thomas Bernhard's Maîtres anciens in November 2017 at the Théâtre de la Bastille in Paris, and toured again with La Loi du marcheur, Un métier idéal and Le Méridien, all presented notably at the Théâtre du Rond-Point in March-April 2018.

In 2019, Nicolas Bouchaud received the Prix du Syndicat de la critique.

His film credits include work with Jacques Rivette(Ne touchez pas à la hache - 2007), Bérénice André(Mon arbre - 2011), Nicolas Klotz and Frédéric Fisbach(Mademoiselle Julie - 2011), Jean Denizot(La Belle Vie - 2013), Pierre Salvadori(Dans la cour - 2014), Mario Fanfani(Les Nuits d'été - 2014), Jean-Christophe Meurisse(Apnée - 2016) and Jean Paul Civeyrac(Mes provinciales - released April 2018).