Prolific novelist and playwright. Secretary of Yves-Marie Desmaretz, comte de Maillebois (1777). Author of the novels Blançay (London and Paris, 1788), Victorine (Paris, 1789), Saint-Alme (Paris, 1790), and Lidorie (Paris, 1792). His comedy in three acts, Les torts apparents, ou la Famille américaine, was performed at the Palais Royal on March 15, 1787.

Born at Fontainebleau.