Towards the end of the French Revolution he was made professor of legislation at the école centrale in Moulins but lost that position when lycées were set up.
Without taste, without judgement, he abused his spirit and his imagination to dress the most bizarre and the most inconsistent ideas in an incorrect and trivial style[3]His first novel Les Sauvages de l’Europe (The Savages of Europe, 1760) was a burlesque satire of England in which two young Frenchmen, Sansor and Tintine, who enthusiastically travel to England, thinking it more democratic than France.
However, they suffer all sorts of misadventures and discover nothing but abominations - inhabitants halfway between man and beast, riots, hangings, hypocrisy, corruption, ever-present Francophobia and appalling food.
His most famous novel remains L'Aventurier françois (The French Adventurer, 1782), which Quérard calls a "cluster of incoherent follies", adding that in his opinion it "delighted frivolous readers" until the issue of the third set of books in the series, at which point the public lost interest.
It narrated the adventures and extraordinary travels of Grégoire Merveil, including his discovery of a subterranean people of old criminals.