[3]A recipient of the Croix de Guerre, Bousquet returned to the conservatoire after the war and continued his studies in composition.

[1][2][5] On his return from Rome in 1926, Bousquet took up an appointment as the director of the Conservatoire de Roubaix, a position he held until his death.

He also worked as journalist for the Parisian arts journal Comœdia during the occupation of France in World War II.

Mon oncle Benjamin premiered at the Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique on 10 March 1942 with Roger Bourdin in the title role.

[2] In his obituary in Comœdia, Tony Aubin wrote that Bousquet's works reflected "one of the most authentic natures of our time" and displayed an "enlightened art, sober but expressive, traversed by bright lightning or bathed in noble melancholy.