Career
He came from a family of bankers. He published anonymously in 1801 his first book, L'antidote de l'ath�isme, and the following year a new edition appeared, enlarged to two volumes, with its title changed to La religion triomphante des attentats de l'impi�t�, and bearing the name of its author. The book was written to refute Sylvien Mar�chal's Dictionnaire des Ath�es then lately published, and received a cordial welcome.
