Chardin wrote the recitatives of Paisiello's Le Roi Théodore à Venise,[1] when this work, translated by Moline, was performed at the Opera on 11 September 1787.
It is also necessary to add to the list of his dramatic productions l'Amant sculpteur, opéra comique in one act which was performed at the Théâtre-comique et lyrique in 1790.
When in 1792, Piis and Barré established the Théâtre du Vaudeville, they hired Chardin as a "teacher" of their young artists, and as a composer and arranger of the music for their plays.
Few people, wrote the editor of the Almanach des Spectacles, were in a better condition than this artist to work for this show: the vaudeville was his favorite genre, and he was made to enrich his theatre with a multitude of tunes, which the authors have put everywhere, and which are in everyone's mouth.
Having warmly embraced the party of the Revolution, Chardin was captain of an armed company of the section de Marat [fr] when he died at age thirty-seven.