[2] He won a medal from the Royal School in the year XII, and the Grand Prix de Rome in 1804.

[1] The prize was awarded for his Méléagre refusant son secours aux habitans de Calydon.

[3] In 1820 Laitié was commissioned by the state to make a statue of Jean de La Fontaine, the poet.

[1] The sculptor Claude André Deseine had made a large sculpture of General Colbert during the First French Empire.

Under Louis Philippe Laitié transformed it into a statue of Marshal Mortier, which was placed in the first court of the palace of Versailles.