he wrote some forty plays produced in parisian theatres. he was also a newspaper columnist using the pseudonym félix mayran, and collaborated with the writer under the joint pseudonym pagalipaux. galipaux and the actor coquelin cadet popularized the genre of music hall monologue acts in the 1880s. he and gabrielle réjane, in character as their roles in the play "madame sans-gêne", are the subjects of henri de toulouse-lautrec's 1893 lithograph "réjane et galipaux dans "madame sans-gêne"". galipaux was also one of the founding members of the cercle funambulesque and was linked to the incoherents movement.