[2] In 1713, Jean-Marie Leclair, François Couperin and other musicians obtained the privileges of printing music from engraved plates.

Ballard brought the case to court, but lost: he was considered to have the exclusive right only to print music in movable type.

He published almost all the French music of the time: Jean-Baptiste Lully's tragedies lyriques, André Campra's operas, and the works of André Cardinal Destouches, Henri Desmarets, minor works by Couperin, Jean-Philippe Rameau,[5] works by Pascal Collasse, Jean-François Dandrieu, Marin Marais, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Jacques-Martin Hotteterre, Michel Richard Delalande, Nicolas Lebègue and Michel Pignolet de Montéclair, in addition to Recueils d’airs sérieux et à boire[6] published monthly from 1695 to 1724.

[7] Ballard also printed Italian songs in a series of Recueils des meilleurs airs italiens from 1699 to 1708,[8] and Brunettes in three duodecimo books dated 1703, 1704, and 1711.

During this period, he printed many important works, such as partitions générale of Lully’s Psyché and Campra’s L’Europe Galante[3] Upon his death, an inventory of the Ballard firm’s library was drawn up.