Under the Restauration and the July Monarchy, when "every day saw the birth of a new paper" (Eugène de Mirecourt), Maurice Alhoy founded Le Philanthrope (1825), "newspaper devoted to charity, morality and the public good.
Two years later, under his leadership, a Biographie parlementaire des représentants du peuple à l'Assemblée nationale constituante de 1848, written by a "society of publicists and men of letters" was published, where we meet his friends Étienne Arago and Louis Lurine.
He created for the stage many plays (more than forty) in the taste of the time: comédies en vaudeville, dramas, melodramas, reviews and variety scenes, written almost always in collaboration and signed by his first names (Philadelphe or Philadelphe-Maurice) or under various pseudonymes (Depontchartrain or de Pontchartrain, Saint-Gervais or "the[H]ermit of Luxembourg").
1824, see on Gallica); One year later, he published the Grande biographie dramatique, ou Silhouette des acteurs, actrices, chanteurs, cantatrices, danseurs, danseuses... (1825) which he signed under his pseudonym L'Ermite du Luxembourg.
The article "Variétés" of the Dictionnaire théâtral à propos aptly puts the interest of this form of entertainment: "The most advantageous situation, a charming room and a rare collection of varied talents may have done even less for the prosperity of this theatre than the license and tone of the works whose repertoire is uniformly composed".