 He also published several articles on botanical subjects in the Journal de Physique in 1780 and delivered several discourses before the Académie de l’Immaculée Conception de la Sainte Vierge de Rouen.He edited the works of Claude-Humbert Piarron de Chamousset, a philanthropist.He spent many years working on a monumental unfinished bibliographic manuscript to be entitled "Histoire Littéraire Universelle, ou Bibliothèque Raisonnée", also Traité des Universités de France and "Mélanges Bibliographiques".