 Despite the success of these works, he lost interest in the theatre, and by the late eighteen twenties devoted himself entirely to literature, mostly to the conte fantastique.An account of his share in the Romantic movement is to be found in Georg Brandes's "Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature".Nodier's "Description raisonnée d'une jolie collection de livres" (1844), which is a catalogue of the books in his library, contains a life by Francis Wey and a complete bibliography of his numerous works.