Already at a young age he was trained by Pierre-Philippe Choffard.
He became a member of the Académie de France à Rome.
He made designs for the bas-reliefs and statues on the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel and the Paris Bourse.
In 1819 Meynier was appointed teacher at the École des Beaux-Arts.
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