 After a stay in Rome where he won a Prix de Rome, he returned to France and sculpted the funeral monument of Bishop Inguimbert (1774), which was placed in the choir of the chapel of the Hôtel-Dieu of Carpentras.He then received an annuity granted by the city of Montpellier to execute for them a fountain of "The Three Graces" (1776) in Place de la Comédie.He then moved to Paris where he married and returned to Marseille.