Farmer General (1768-91). Commissaire du Roi, procureur du Roi, commissaire aux Chambres de Valence et de Lyon.

Author of Mémoire sur l’administration de la Ferme Généralle (1774 or 1780). Received Turgot, Malherbes, Condorcet, and Dupont de Nemours at his salon. Arranged a tour of the King’s library for Franklin (1777).

As director of the tobacco department, was involved in tobacco negotiations with the American Commissioners (1777).

Father-in-law of the famous chemist and Farmer-General, Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier. Married in 1752 to Claude Thpynet de Rozière.