Patriarch of a large acting dynasty, Dugazon advised Louis XIV on buildings, bridges and lodges.
He married Marie-Catherine Dumay in Lille on 18 November 1734 and stayed in that city until 1739, apart from a two-year stay in Brussels as director of the Théâtre de la Monnaie.
From 1742 to 1749, he acted in Marseille where, among other theatrical engagements, he was director of hospitals for the armée d'Italie.
Returning to his nomadic lifestyle, he acted at Bordeaux and Bayonne, before being thoroughly engaged in Stuttgart in 1760.
He then directed the theatre at Montpellier during the 1769-1770 season and died in Paris in 1774.