One of the most important orfèvres-bijoutiers of his time, Louis Roucel did not become master by Royal prerogative until 23 August 1763, sponsored by Alexis Porcher, some years after his first recorded works. In 1759 Roucel is recorded as living (and undoubtedly working) in the house of sieur Ducrollay in the place Dauphine, whence les Affiches de Paris announced on 12 January 1764 that he had moved to the quai de l’Horloge, près de la porte du Palais, au Gros Raisin, au Ier where he remained until 1776, the year following the death of his wife. Between 1763 and 1776 Roucel’s name frequently appeared in the records of the Menus-Plaisirs du Roi, receiving 4,800 livres for jewels supplied on the occasion of the marriage of the Dauphin to Marie Antoinette in 1770. Louis Roucel’s death is recorded on 6 March 1787 in the bourg of Puteaux, then a small village over the Seine to the west of Paris.