In 1832, Jean Baptiste Antoine Guillemin and George Samuel Perrottet named the botanical genus Herminiera after him.
He worked as a gardener at the Jardin des Plantes, and in 1819-21 was as a naturalist on an expedition commanded by Naval Captain Pierre Henri Philibert.
With Achille Richard (1794–1852) and George Samuel Perrottet (1793–1870), he was co-author of a work on the flora of Senegambia (geographic location of present-day Senegal and Gambia) titled Florae Senegambiae Tentamen... (1830–1833).
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