François-Frédéric-Raoul Toché (7 October 1850 – 18 January 1895) was a French playwright and journalist.
He contributed to libretti for Jacques Offenbach, Gaston Serpette and Théodore Dubois.
His other pen names included Escopette, Raoul Tavel, Robert Triel and Gavroche.
[1][2] Between 1881 and 1885 he published annual retrospectives of theatrical productions in Paris[3] Toché was made a chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 1893.
[1] In desperate financial straits, caused by gambling debts, he killed himself on 18 January 1895 at Chantilly by shooting himself in the head.