He is the author of the opéra-comique in three acts Ne touchez pas à la reine to a libretto by Eugène Scribe and Gustave Vaëz.

[2] Born in Montpellier, the younger son of Jean-Louis Boisselot, he learned the basic elements of music in Marseille, where his family had settled after 1823.

After some time studying counterpoint and fugue under François-Joseph Fétis,[3] and composition under Jean-François Le Sueur, whose second daughter, Louise Eugénie Félicité Lesueur (1808–1884), he would marry on 17 October 1833,[4] he won second prize in 1834 and the Prix de Rome in 1836 for his cantata Velleda,[5] which was performed at the Conservatoire on 8 October that same year.

The quality of his grand pianos at home granted him a first class medal at the Exposition Universelle (1855),[6] where his products were among the best of France and Spain.

[7] Boisselot retired that same year and passed the management of his factories over to his nephew, Franz Boisselot (1845–1902), whose godfather was Franz Liszt, and who completely restored his business to a prosperous situation, delivering 600 to 800 pianos per year, with a large number destined for export.