His parents were Charles, seigneur de Villiers and Jeanne du Montel.
[1] On 23 March 1699 in Rennes he married Marie Louise Marguerite de Marnière.
[1] His daughter Marie-Catherine married in 1729 to Jacques-Etienne-Louis Texier, Comte d'Hauteville, an army captain.
[5] Soon after Sorel arrived in Saint-Domingue he approved a plan by the military engineer Amédée-François Frézier to replace the decaying barracks at Le Cap-Français with a new masonry buildings, as well as other buildings such as the powder storehouse and the king's storehouse.
[6] Sorel pushed hard for the work to be done, and eventually the superintendent of finance, Jean-Jacques Mithon de Senneville, agreed to support it.