His translation from Alexander Pope, "L'Essai sur l'homme", was published with an elaborate preface in 1783, and "La Chartreuse" and "Le Jour des morts" in the same year, "Le Verger" in 1788 and his "Epître sur l'édit en faveur des non-catholiques", and the "Essai sur l'astronomie" in 1789.