The son of Guillaume Agasse, lord of Maurevert and Cresne, accounts clerk of the royal household and chamber and the Chevalier de Maurevert, in 1787 he married Antoinette Pauline Panckoucke, daughter of the editor Charles-Joseph Panckoucke.

A privy-counsellor to the House and Crown of France, he was himself an Officer of the Goblets of the King's Household and a citizen of Paris.

In 1794, the latter associated him with the development of the family publishing house and the involved him in maintaining the Lisle bookstore following the death of Placide Panckoucke in 1800.

Politically, he was a member of the first electoral assembly of Paris, held at the beginning of October 1790 and he was licensed as a printer 1 April 1811.

His nephew Henry Agasse de Cresne was a notary from 1810 to 1837 and a shareholder of the Bank of France.