He made his debut aged 17 years in a concerto; the 1st of April 1770 issue of the Mercure de France saw him as full of promise, but ten years later the same magazine was less enthusiastic and spoke of his "significant timidity" (April 1781).

Their association was made public on 2 August 1783[1] with the release of the second flute concerto by François Devienne (1759–1803).

A great number of important composers were presented: Haydn (including the Symphonies Parisiennes (#82 to 87), Clementi, Viotti, Pleyel, Mozart, Boccherini, Gyrowetz,[2] Paul Wranitzky, Daniel Steibelt, Alessandro Rolla and many other composers.

In 1798 or 1799 he bought the store of a publisher named Leblanc for another sale location specified in his advertising: in the "peristyle of the comic Opera Theatre" at 461 rue Favart.

He retired - but remained at 125 rue Saint-Honoré where the shop was located[1] – living off his royalties[6] His widow, with whom he had no children, survived him when he died aged 79.