He became a luthier and worked in Paris at the Royal Academy of Music.
In 1776, he moved to rue Saint-Honoré, close to the Opera, in the section of the Oratory, where he remained until the end of his days.
[2] A supporter of revolutionary ideals, he became an elector of his section 1791 and 1792.
One of the most energetic members of the Jacobin Club, the jury considered him the hardest of those tried in the Revolutionary Court.
Sentenced to death on 17 Floreal, year III, he was guillotined the next day in Paris, on the Place de Grève, with fifteen co-defendants.