He was widely noted in a production of L'Opérateur chinois, a ballet by Jean-Baptiste Dehesse, from 11 January 1749 onwards.
The directors of the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels, D'Hannetaire and Gourville, summoned him to join their company in 1756.
After a long absence, Pitrot returned to Brussels in 1771 as ballet master, engaged by the directors Ignaz Vitzthumb and Louis Compain.
After another absence, he again returned to Brussels in 1784, and there married a young girl 31 years his junior (with whom he had one son called Antoine, who later had a career as a magistrate).
On 4 November 1805, he published the following advert in L'Oracle : Pitrot, old lead-dancer and ballet master, having been summoned to all the courts of Europe to fill these roles there, informs the maîtres and maîtresses de pensions, that he has for a year since resumed his status as a dance master; those that will need him, will be able to address themselves to him at rue des Cailles, n° 729, section 6; he will be honoured to go where he is asked.There was now little chance of these offers meeting with success, for he was by then 76 years old, and he died shortly afterwards at the Grand Hospice in Brussels.