If he never gave up the stage (he even played the role of Maître Robert in his last play Les Amazones modernes in 1727, written in collaboration with Louis Fuzelier), he devoted part of his time to writing theater plays (forty in all), sometimes to the Comédie française, sometimes to the Comedie Italienne, and once even for a Théâtre de la foire, the opéra comique, Les Animaux raisonnables, 1717. Le Roi de Cocagne (1718) is usually considered to be his masterpiece.
