In 1788 he became a member of the Académie française, and published "Estelle", a pastoral of the same class as "Galatie". Another romance, "Gonzalve de Cordoue", preceded by an historical notice of the Moors, appeared in 1791, and his famous collection of "Fables" in 1802. Among his posthumous works are "La Jeunesse de Florian, ou Mémoires d'un Jeune Espagnol" (1807), and an abridgment (1809) of "Don Quixote", which, though far from being a correct representation of the original, had great and merited success.