sentences:  Attracted to literature, and frequenting the Society of the Caveau, he became a lawyer at Parliament, a career which he did not like, but endured for fifteen years in order to support his family.His professional life in the theatre began when he was forty.Neither his comedy "Les Trois rivaux" ("The Three Rivals"), nor his tragedy "Aménophis" met with success, which came in 1760 with the tragedy "Spartacus" and the comedy "Les Mœurs du temps" ("The Manners of the Time"), which were applauded at the Comédie-Française.