(b Marseille, 22 July 1757; d Paris, 6 May 1840). French sculptor. The son of a carpenter, he moved to Paris in 1776 and entered the studio of Charles-Antoine Bridan. He also attended, on an irregular basis, the studios of the sculptors Jean-Joseph Foucou, Pierre Julien and Philippe-Laurent Roland, but he seems to have been chiefly influenced by David. His career is obscure before the French Revolution, in which he played an active role as one of the presidents of the Société Républicaine des Arts, attracting attention through his speeches in favour of patriotic subjects and the use of antique costume. From 1793 he was a regular exhibitor at the Salon, principally showing portrait busts. Although he was a Republican of strong convictions, the climax of his career came during the Consulate (1799–1804) and the Empire (1804–14), when he received a number of state commissions, including a bust of Cicero (plaster, 1803; Fontainebleau, Château), a statue of Mirabeau (plaster, 1804–5; untraced) for the Palais du Luxembourg, Paris, and a relief of The Victory of Austerlitz for the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel, Paris (marble, 1810; in situ). Particularly successful were the allegorical reliefs for the Fontaine de la Paix in the Marché Saint-Germain, Paris (marble, 1810; now Paris, Rue Bonaparte).