 held several important positions in the Parisian cabinet-makers' guild, the "Corporation des menuisiers-ébénistes", before retiring from business at the disruption of his clientele by the French Revolution and died in 1799.Pieces by R.V.L.C.figure in all the national collections of decorative arts, and qusi-national ones like that at Waddesdon Manor, or the Musée Nissim de Camondo, Paris, and in numerous private collections.