Jacques Duphly published four harpsichord collections (1744-68), modelled chiefly on those of Rameau. Book 3 includes a sombre rondeau in bass-viol range called 'La Forqueray' after the late virtuoso of that instrument, a brilliant chaconne of 285 bars, and a savage tirade entitled 'La Médée'. Book 4 contains the enchanting rondeau, 'La Pothouin'. D'Aquin wrote that 'in general his pieces are sweet and amiable: they take after their father'. Born in 1715, the year of Louis XIV's death, he died on July 15, 1789, the day after the storming of the Bastille, in an apartment in the Hôtel de Juigné, lonely, forgotten and without a harpsichord.