The article profiles Jacques Rouché, the director of the Académie Nationale de Musique et de Danse, better known as the Paris Opéra in Paris, France. Rouché served as director of the Opéra from 1915 to 1944 and is known in Paris theater circles. He was born in 1862 and eventually became a diplomat as he started his career. He also worked in a perfurme business and became an editor of "La Grande Revue" in 1907.