Main Works
- a marble statue of a kneeling Louis XVI, for the église de Saint-Denis : Praying Marie-Antoinette and Louis XVI (commissioned by Louis XVIII in 1816 from Edme Gaulle and Pierre Petitot, realised in 1830).
- bust of Claude Perrault
- the Study of Nature, bas-relief for a planned fountain on place de la Bastille
- two bronze bull's head fountain-heads at 8 rue des Hospitalières-Saint-Gervais, on a building which was originally the cattle shed for the marché des Blancs Manteaux, later converted into a school.
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The fatherland crowning illustrious men, bas-relief on the pediment of the Panthéon de Paris.
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Pediment with the motto of the Panthéon
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Bronze bull's head, fountainhead of Paris's marché des Blanc-Manteaux (1762-1841), 1819. H. 19 cm (7 ¼ in.)
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