An actor since his childhood in the troupe of Audinot at the Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique, he soon became appreciated by the public but very undisciplined, he was locked several times at For-l'Évêque.

At the end of the year 1789, he left to play in the French West Indies, especially in Saint-Domingue (today Haiti) with some other artists of the troupe led by the dancer Placide.

Accused of being "moderate" by the revolutionaries in Bordeaux, he left the city and traveled to Nantes and in Paris in 1795, at the Théâtre de la Cité.

In 1798 he sailed again to the colonies and went to Île-de-France (today Mauritius) where he stayed two years, then returned to Paris to take the direction of the Théâtre de la Gaîté.

He is the author of sixty plays, often licentious and scandalous works, always anonymous... His Chroniqueur désœuvré (1781-1783) is a sum of rumors on theaters of Paris in the late eighteenth century.