Over the next eight years Gounod composed five more operas, all with Barbier or Carré or both. "Philémon et Baucis" (1860) and "La Colombe" (The Dove, 1860) were opéras comiques based on stories by Jean de La Fontaine. The first was an attempt to take advantage of a vogue for mildly satirical comedies in mythological dress started by Jacques Offenbach with "Orphée aux enfers" (1858). The opera had originally been intended for the theatre at Baden-Baden, but Offenbach and his authors expanded it for its eventual first performance, in Paris at the Théâtre Lyrique. "La Colombe", also written for Baden-Baden, was premiered there and later expanded for its first Paris production (1886).