[1] The son of a family of diplomats and military (King's interpreter in the Levant), he studied at the École des Jeunes de langues, in the premises of the collège Louis-le-Grand in Paris.
After an internship at the Embassy of France in Constantinople, he held various positions of drogoman in Syria, Egypt, Morocco, Tunis and Algiers.
He returned to Paris in 1797 to occupy the chair of Turkish language at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales.
Jean-Joseph Marcel, who was his pupil says he died from dysentery,[2] while others speak of plague.
Another hypothesis assumes that he died April 19, 1799, at Nazareth of illness following the Siege of Acre[3] Married June 14, 1774, in Cairo with Victoria Digeon, he had two daughters including Jeanne Venture de Paradis who in 1810 married the clockmaker Antoine Louis Breguet, son of the famous Abraham-Louis Breguet, who is an ascendant of actress Clémentine Célarié[3] and the other daughter who married Joseph Sulkowski, Polish aristocrat favorite aide of Napoleon Bonaparte during the expedition of Egypt.