 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.