In 1825, the troupe disbanded, and he remained with a Spaniard known as Consuelo, and formed with the man and two of his sons, a weightlifting and physique posing group called "Les Alcides".

[3] During this time he learned French and Spanish, and read classical and renaissance gymnastics and physical education literature volumes in the school library.

[3] In 1834, he set up an itinerant sports show and pioneered a novel performance featuring physique posing, closely resembling the one subsequently used by Eugen Sandow.

[3] Triat moved to Paris around 1846,[4] and joined forces with Nicolas Dally (1795–1862)[5] to found a joint-stock company with the aim of opening a large gymnasium on the Allée des Veuves, the future Avenue Montaigne.

Among them were Prince Charles-Louis Napoléon Bonaparte, novelist Paul Féval, and authors Jules Vallès and Eugène Paz.

[10] At the end of the 1860s, having earned up to 400,000 francs in revenue, he set his sights on building a huge sports complex on the Île Saint-Germain, a "gymnastics school", the plans for which were drawn up by Théodore Charpentier's son.

[14] Relatively forgotten, Triat, who left a widow named Marie-Françoise-Cornélie Pasquet, died at 22 Rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Paris on 11 January 1881: Jules Allix paid tribute to him and allowed his remains to be buried in his family's tomb in the Montmartre Cemetery.

[15][16][13] According to French physical culturist and academic Edmond Desbonnet, Triat measured 1.79 m (5.9 ft) tall in 1854, and weighed 95 kg (209 lb).

In his Parisian gymnasium, he played master of ceremonies and trained athletes collectively in various strength disciplines, which the public could watch: "Triat, doing away with complicated apparatus, invented his method, where the pupil, with a pair of 6-pound dumbbells, a 12-pound bar and a few clubs, acquires good muscularity before tackling suspension exercises, climbing, jumps, etc.

], Musée Hébert) is said to have been inspired by the athlete; another, showing him in mid-body carrying a club, identifies him as "Gymnasiarch, Grand Master founder of the Order of the Regeneration of Man".