Born at Nantes, 1752; died at Rennes in 1836.
A pupil and friend of Delisle de Salés. He was called to the Bar at
Rennes, capital of Brittany, and became Councillor of the Parliament
of that town. He was one of those arrested suspects saved by the
Revolution of Thermidor, 1794.
After the 18th Brumaire his well-known honesty and amiability of
character caused his nomination as a judge of the High Court at Trèves
and later Nantes. In 1815 he was, as a Liberal, deprived of his
functions, but reinstated the following year.
He wrote much poetry and several philosophical treatises.