At fifteen he measured 29 inches.

He was of good constitution, but was almost an idiot; for example, he did not recognize his mother after fifteen days' separation.

He was quite lax in his morals, and exhibited no evidences of good nature except his lively attachment for his royal master, who was himself a detestable character.

He died at twenty-two in a very decrepit condition, and his skeleton is preserved in the Museum of Natural History in Paris.

Shortly before his death Bebe became engaged to a female dwarf named Therese Souvray, who at one time was exhibited in Paris at the Theatre Conti, together with an older sister.