Tuhia he haere tonu mō tēnei wāhanga - i whānau a Montauban ki Paris. I a ia e mahi ana hei rangatira hoia hoiho, he nui tana mahi i Algeria, engari he koromatua noa ia i te tau 1847 i te wa i hopukina ai e ia a Abdel Kadir. I waenga i te Hanuere 1855 me Noema 1857, i whakahau a Montauban i te wehenga o Oran i te hauauru o Algeria. I te tau 1855 i tukuna ia ki te whawhai ki Crimea. I tohua ia i te tau 1858 ki te whakahau i te kainga, a, i te mutunga o te tau 1859, i tohua ia ki te arahi i nga hoia French i te haerenga Anglo-French ki Haina
He aha? Ko tana whakahaere i nga mahi kaore i mawhiti i te whakahe, engari i te tau 1862 i whakawhiwhia ki a ia e Napoleon III, te taitara o te comte de Palikao (mai i te Pakanga o Palikao); kua oti ia te noho hei seneta. Ko te whakapae kua whiwhi ia i te taonga nui na te pahua o te Old Summer Palace i Peking kaore he turanga.