Career
In addition Hocquart wrote many useful guides for the common man, such as "Le secrétaire de tout le monde: ou, Louisiana correspondance usuelle" (1881), detailing "the principles of the art of letter writing, the instructions of the French Department of Posts and Telegraphs, models of family letters, requests, trading, petitions for all positions and circumstances, the procedures followed for common actions, such as purchasing, sales, deposits, leases, powers of attorney, contracts, acts for mayors and rural police, and finishing with a course of instruction on compatibility and some State laws". Another was his 1842 work "Alphabet des métiers", an alphabetic list of professions, illustrated with woodcuts.