[2][3] He was the son of Ambroise Tauvry[4] He was a medical doctor, and took Daniel to the hospital to train him in the observation and practice of medicine.
He was his first teacher, and he made him make such rapid progress in letters and philosophy that before the age of ten he defended theses in logic.
Strong in his convictions and supported by Duverney, he then took part in a dispute on the circulation of blood in the foetus by bringing an opinion contrary to that of Jean Méry, chief surgeon of the Hôtel-Dieu and anatomist.
His funeral took place at the Sainte-Geneviève church, his parish, in the midst of an incredible gathering of friends and quality people.
Such eagerness on the part of this elite crowd testified more eloquently than all the panegyrics in the world to the merit of the young doctor... Daniel Tauvry was only thirty-one years old and yet he already had a distinguished place in society and medicine... What a loss for the sciences, for his friends, for his family!According to Fontenelle, who pronounced the eulogy at the academy, he had an extremely lively and penetrating mind; he added to the knowledge of anatomy the talent of conjecturing happily.