Born around 1767 in Geneva, the son of a Huguenot banker, Jean-Jacques Sartoris, and Anne Greffuhle (aunt of Jean-Henry-Louis Greffulhe), he was baptised on 5 August 1773.
They had six children including a son, the British statesman Edward John Sartoris, and a daughter who later married Louis Victor Arthur des Acres de l'Aigle.
Thanks to his diplomatic charge, he thought he could fling open the gates of high society for himself; yet no sooner had he passed the line he had been craving for, did he stop caring for a second-order office, which he openly declared to me, offering me to be introduced as his successor'.
[7] During the French Restoration, Sartoris invested millions of francs in inland waterways, lived by then in his manor at Sceaux.
[8] He bought the estates of la Garenne de Colombes, which his inheritors sold by pieces around 1865.