Career
In 1806, he became a surgeon at the Hôpital Beaujon, and in 1810 was assigned to the Hôpital de la Charité. In 1835, he succeeded Guillaume Dupuytren (1777–1835) as chief surgeon at Hôtel-Dieu de Paris. Remembered for his pioneer work in plastic surgery, in 1819 he performed one of the earliest staphylorrhaphies (surgical repair of a cleft palate).
He is also credited with being the first surgeon to suture a ruptured female perineum (1832).
A collection of his papers is held at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland.