Jean Louis Belloq (1730−1807) was a professor of anatomy at Paris and designer of numerous surgical instruments including a cannula for plugging the posterior nares still know by his name.
The most important French surgeon of the latter part of the eighteenth century was Pierre Joseph Desault (1744−1795). He had studied under Louis and Morand, and after contributing several years as surgeon of the Charité (1782). Desault became a surgeon in Hôtal Dieu in 1788. He had excessive
students in surgery, and he established the first surgical anatomy in French and improved the system of operations by scheming new instruments, and creating an important surgical journal, the Journal de Chirurgie (1791−1792). His bandage for the fractured clavicle is well known even in present time. His student Bichat gave the materials of Desault’s surgery in his Oeuvres Chirurgicales (3 volumes, 1798−1803).