 He was the husband of Françoise-(Elisabeth) de Jarente (the niece of the bishop of Orléans), whom he married on 1 February 1753.They were the parents of the famous French gastronome and author Alexandre Balthazar Laurent Grimod de La Reynière (1758–1837).In 1775, he had the hôtel Grimod de La Reynière constructed in Paris in the corner between Avenue Gabriel and Rue Boissy d'Anglas.