[1] Tarbé des Sablons wrote musical criticisms under the pseudonym "Zanony" in l’Époque, published by Georges Feydeau.

On 5 July 1868 Tarbé and Henry de Pène founded the daily Le Gaulois, and the next year he became the sole director.

The previous year his drama in five acts Martyr (1886), in collaboration with Adolphe d'Ennery, had a great success at the Théâtre de l'Ambigu.

He had finally finished a new play entitled L’Enfant du miracle, which he had intended to premiere at the Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin with a special role for Coquelin.

Tarbé des Sablons and his wife, Mélanie née Kauffmann, were found dead in their room the next morning, on 14 December 1900.