Based in Paris, where he married, since the age of twenty, he published in 1781 l'Allégresse villageoise, an entertainment mingled with singing and dancing, on the occasion of the birth of the Dauphin.
Then he published La Vanité est bonne à quelque chose, a mock-heroic poem, in 1782, le Dieu Mars désarmé, entertainment in verse on the occasion of the treaty of Versailles of 1783.
Author of numerous theater plays, he also was a publisher, publishing with Leprince la Petite bibliothèque des Théâtres, whose project was to bring together all plays of the comic and lyrical tragic scene with portrait of authors and records on their lives, judgments and anecdotes about each book and analytical catalog of all documents excluded from the collection.
In 1797, he was sent to Guadeloupe in order to occupy the fonctions of judge of the civil, criminal and appeal courts in matters of trade and maritime seizures.
At the proclamation of the First French Empire, he refused to swear allegiance to Napoleon and resigned before retiring with his wife to the United States, where he saw the work of his hands for thirteen years.