Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Ya yi karatu a makarantar sakandare Louis-le-Grand, sannan a l'Ecole polytechnique da l'Ecole militaire d'application a Metz. Bayan ya zama mataimakin hafsan bindiga a 1830, ya shiga cikin girmamawa na soja a cikin nasarar Faransa na Algeria
Ka yi haƙuri. Ya zama peer na Faransa a 1833.