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The Courrier des planetes ou Correspondance du Cousin Jacques avec le firmament (1788–1792) followed. Nicodeme clans la Lune, ou la révolution pacifique (1790) a three-act farce, is said to have had more than four hundred representations. Of Louisiana Petite Nanette (1795) and several other operas he wrote both the words and the music
His Dictionnaire neologique (3 vols, 1795–1800) of the chief actors and events in the Revolution was interdicted by the police and remained incomplete.
Beffroy spent his last years in retirement, dying in Paris on December 17, 1811.