Desbarolles was Frenchman who was born in Paris on August 22, 1801. He is called the father of modern palmistry because of his innovative work on Palmistry. Desbarolles was originally a painter of very good talent, but during his travel to Spain he started to study Palmistry under the guidance of Gypsies. Later on he left painting and focused himself on the study of Palmistry more seriously.

In his 1st written work "Les Mysteres de la Main" which was published in 1859, Desbarolles tries to convince the reader that his work is based upon the scientific discoveries. But he contradicts his saying by an unlikely and scientific basis tale of a soldier, whose hand lines completely disappeared from his hand after a bullet injury in his shoulder. He supported his statement with the logic that bullet caused damage in his nerves system and that is why his hand lines vanished from the hand.

Desbarolles starts his book with the analysis of finger and palm, then he discusses the mounts of the hand, and then he turn by turn goes through the major lines of the hand, and finishes  with a useful description of some signs and marks, found in a hand. In his second book "Revelations Completes" which was published in 1874. This book comprises more than one thousand pages of valuable illustrated discussion of different hand lines and their formations. Desbarolles also guides about the choice of profession through hand lines, in his second book. Further he also provided valuable information about certain signs and marks on hand lines, especially in regard of health & diseases.

Desbarolles claimed that D'Arpentigny book was not clearly written and it is now his duty to clarify and simplify D'Arpentigny's work for the understanding of people. But Desbarolles is certainly thankful to D'Arpentigny for many of his observations and findings on Palmistry, because many sections of his book are presented almost in the same way as D'Arpentigny had already in his book.

Desbarolles died in Paris on Thursday, February 11, 1886 at the age 85.