 In total, he produced 238 pieces, more than 50 of which he wrote without a collaborator.The others were the result of a collaboration with better Parisian vaudevillistes, including Jean-Nicolas Bouilly, Nicolas Brazier, Pierre-Frédéric-Adolphe Carmouche, Marc-Antoine Désaugiers, Mélesville and Eugène Scribe.His greatest success was "Les Saltimbanques", written with Charles Varin, a "farce désopilante" according to the "Grand Dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle", put on at the Théâtre des Variétés in 1838.