"Ernestine", Saint-Georges's first opera, with a libretto by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, future author of "Les Liaisons dangereuses", was performed on July 19, 1777, at the "Comédie-Italienne". It did not survive its premiere. The critics liked the music, but panned the weak libretto, which was then usually given precedence over the music. The Queen attended with her entourage. She came to support Saint-Georges's opera but, after the audience kept echoing a character cracking his whip and crying "Ohé, Ohé," the Queen gave it the coup de grace by calling to her driver: "to Versailles, Ohé!"