These include "La voix des chênes",[2] "L'Angélus de la mer",[3] and "Le Credo du paysan";[4] the latter two especially being important early hits.
[1] In October 1890 his first musical stage work, the one act Chanteur et Pipelot, was mounted in Lille.
While there his one act musicals Par-devant le notaire (1899), Le Serum de l'amour (1899), and Les Filles de la Belle Helene (1900) were performed there.
[citation needed] His most successful work, the operetta Mam'zelle Boy Scout, was given its premiere at the Théâtre de la Renaissance on April 3, 1915.
Quelle nuit was first performed at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord on November 19, 1920.