 He also created innovative interior designs, the most notable, the separation of private and public spaces for the Palais Bourbon in Paris.He was the son of Jean-Jacques Aubert, master carpenter in the Bâtiments du Roi, and was trained in the large atelier of Jules Hardouin-Mansart.Aubert was employed in the Bâtiments du Roi as a designer from 1703 (Kimball p 131); in 1707, Hardouin-Mansart had him appointed an "architecte du Roi" and attempted to get him seated in the second class of the Académie royale d'architecture.