Career
He represented Cornwallis in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1808 to 1830, as a supporter of the Parti canadien and later the Parti patriote. He was born in Ancienne-Lorette, the son of Romain Robitaille and Marie-Josephte Drolet. Robitaille lived in the Saint-Louis parish of Kamouraska, later moving to Saint-Pascal.
He did not run for reelection to the assembly in 1830.
Robitaille died at Saint-Pascal at the age of 87.