In January 1856 Gounod was appointed a knight of the Legion of Honour. In June of that year he and his wife had the first of their two children, a son Jean (1856–1935). (Their daughter Jeanne (1863–1945) was born seven years later.) In 1858 Gounod composed his next opera, "Le Médecin malgré lui". With a good libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, faithful to the Molière comedy on which it is based, it gained excellent reviews, but its good reception was overshadowed for Gounod by the death of his mother the day after the premiere. At the time an initial run of 100 performances was considered a success; "Le Médecin malgré lui" achieved that and was revived in Paris and elsewhere during the rest of the 19th century and into the 20th. In 1893 the British "Musical Times" praised its "irresistible gaiety". Huebner comments that the opera does not deserve the relative neglect into which it has since fallen.