[1] He was among the twenty founders of the Conférence Molé debating society on 19 March 1832.

Four of them later became members of the Council of State including Prosper Hochet, Mortimer Ternaux, Achille Guilhem and Édouard Bocher.

They had two children: In 1839 Édouard Bocher was made prefect for Gers, then in 1841 for Toulouse and in 1842 for Caen.

Opposed to the Second French Empire, he and others were put in charge of dealing with the property of Louis-Philippe I and his family.

In 1871 he was elected to represent Calvados, sitting in the centre-right group, of which he became president.