Other opera librettos followed, including Spontini's Fernand Cortez and Cherubini's Abencérages, but none obtained so great a success. From 1811 to 1814 he published in the weekly Gazette de France a series of satirical sketches of Parisian life, later collected under the title of L'Ermite de la Chaussée d'Antin, ou observations sur les moeurs et les usages français au commencement du xixe siècle (1812–1814, 5 vols.), which was warmly received and made his name as a journalist; he contributed to Le Nain jaune, La Minerve française, Le Miroir, Pandore and L'Observateur. Étienne de Jouy was also one of the founders of the Biographie nouvelle des contemporains, who encouraged contributions from the young journalist François Buloz whom he had employed in his chemical factory and who would have a distinguished career guiding the Revue des deux mondes. In 1821 his tragedy of Sylla gained a triumph due in part to the genius of the actor Talma, who had studied the title-rôle from Napoleon; it opened 27 December 1821 at the Théâtre-Français. Under the Restoration Jouy consistently fought for the cause of freedom, and if his work was overrated by his contemporaries, they were probably influenced by their respect for the author himself. He died in rooms set apart for his use in the Château de St Germain-en-Laye, 4 September 1846. Works Some of the most notable out of the long list of his opera librettos, tragedies and miscellaneous writings are: Milton (1804), opera, in collaboration with A.-M. Dieulafoy, music by Spontini La Vestale (1807), opera, music by Spontini Fernand Cortez (1809), opera, in collaboration with J.-A. Esménard, music by Spontini Les amazones, ou La fondation de Thèbes (1811), opera, music by Étienne Méhul Tippo Saeb, tragedy (1813) Les Abencérages, ou L'étendard de Grenade (1813), opera, music by Cherubini Belisaire, tragedy (1818) Les Hermites en prison (1823), written in collaboration with Antoine Jay, like himself a political prisoner Moïse et Pharaon (1827), opera, with Luigi Balocchi, music by Rossini Guillaume Tell (1829), opera, with Hippolyte Bis, music by Rossini. See also Badaud Notes References Michel Faul, Les aventures militaires, littéraires et autres d'Etienne de Jouy (Editions Seguier, France) March 2009, ) External links Étienne de Jouy on Data.bnf.fr Site on Étienne de Jouy and his biography (French) People from Versailles 1764 births 1846 deaths 18th-century French dramatists and playwrights 19th-century French dramatists and playwrights French opera librettists Members of the Académie Française