An elector and from 1790 a member of Nîmes' Amis de la Constitution club, he became a municipal officer on 27 March 1791, dominated by revolutionary merchants.
In September that year the représentants Rovère and Poultier made him mayor of Nîmes and president and member of the committee for revolutionary surveillance for Le Gard.
He led the local Jacobins and - supported by the popular society of Nîmes - violently pursued former federalists, deserters and those who had broken the General maximum law.
He also ensured the Gard tribunal was renewed on 15 May 1794 - in it he condemned 17 local figures to death on 19 July 1794, including Jean Valz and all the federalist-era members of the municipal council.
On the night of 11 May 1795, unknown armed men forced the citadel gates and massacred him and two other Jacobins, Jean Allien, the former keeper of the Capucins prison, and Moulin, the former inspector of military transport.